Re: Path change to LUA_CPATH in Lua Binaries

[Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@...>]

Ross Berteig wrote:
> On 8/27/2008, RJP Computing wrote:
> > Yes I think this is a bit of a heavy approach, plus we still need to 
> > be able
> > to run 'lua' on the command line so the PATH will still need to be 
> > updated.
>
> Another (better?) approach might be to patch package.loadlib() for 
> Windows to use LoadLibraryEx() with the flag 
> LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH instead of LoadLibrary(). 

This was discussed previously (I proposed this approach some time ago 
[1]). Maybe in the light of LfW and LuaRocks, this could be a good time 
to reconsider this.

Regards,
Ignacio

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-05/msg00397.html