Re: [ANN] Lua for Windows v5.1.4.18 Released

["Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2008/9/12 Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com>:
> On Friday 12 September 2008, Mark Meijer wrote:
>> - LuaTCC: http://luatcc.luaforge.net/ - Allows for C (and assembly)
>> snippets to be embedded in Lua apps, compiled and executed on the fly.
>> Seems extremely useful and powerful to have. If I'm not mistaken, it
>> will also be included in the upcoming Lua Programming Gems book. Can
>> also be used as an alternative to Alien (or to custom built bindings)
>> for calling external DLL's. I think this binding uses TCC 0.9.23
>> though, while the latest version TCC 0.9.24 includes some important
>> fixes (see http://bellard.org/tcc/ ).
>
> didn't know about a new TCC.  in fact, the reason i left lua-tcc was because
> TCC seemed abandoned.  and it's (was?) not possible to handle two TCC
> environments, making most interesting 'C scripting' uses unfeasible
>
> i'll try to get some free time this weekend [or the next :-(  ]  to update it.

I didn't know you were still maintaining your lua-tcc, the one linked
by Mark above is my "fork" (it's not really a fork but rather a
complete rewrite). Maybe we could merge both projects at some point.