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

["Andrew Wilson" <agrwagrw@...>]

Hi Mark,
We certainly want to include as many libraries as possible into LfW.
But the LfW effort is mostly repackaging & documentation. And for
stability, compatibility reasons on Windows all the libraries have to
be build for the same runtime package, we've chosen MSVC++ Visual
Studio 2005 (same as Google Chrome). So currently, if the project's
library isn't a pure Lua module, then we need a Windows .dll
supporting MSVC++ 2005 runtime. And so we can't add a lib until it's
been built in Visual Studio 2005. Which as you can tell is quite a bit
of  work considering how many c libraries are available for Lua. So
we'll try to get to what we can, but if you've got something really
hot, build the lib in Visual Studio 2005 and it can easily be added to
LfW.

Cheers
Andrew

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Mark Meijer <meijer78@gmail.com> wrote:
> If requests are taken :) I would like to propose the following for
> consideration, to be added to LfW some day:
>
> - ConcurrentLua: http://concurrentlua.luaforge.net/ - As mentioned by
> Linker in previous post. Easy coroutine wrapper with message passing,
> implemented largely in Lua.
>
> - 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/ ).
>
> - JSON4Lua: http://json.luaforge.net/ - Probably needs as little
> introduction as any of the others. Easy and fast serialisation (to
> strings) of pretty much anything (other than userdata). Also includes
> RPC using JSON for marshalling.
>
> - Lua-TinyCDB: http://asbradbury.org/projects/lua-tinycdb/ - Easy and
> fast storage/retrieval of key/value pairs on a disk file (if not
> changed often). Imagine the possibilities in combination with
> JSON4Lua.
>
> - LuaLanes: http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/askok/bin/lanes/ (instead
> of, or in addition to, LuaTask... I don't know if LuaTask is still
> active but the latest release was almost a year ago. LuaLanes supports
> spawning regular Lua functions as threads, thread priorities, and
> seems to have better support for cancelling threads. Also LuaTask
> appears to be using 'arg').
>
> - lbase64 :http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lbase64 (and
> lascii85: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lascii85 ) - Not
> only useful for web stuff.
>
> - lpack: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lpack - Pack and
> unpack binary data. Luiz does have a grand collection of cool tools :)
>
> - Pluto: http://lua-users.org/wiki/PlutoLibrary - Persistance,
> persistance, persistance.
>
> - Lua-iconv: http://lua-iconv.luaforge.net/ - Conversion between
> various character encodings.
>
> - LuaSDL: http://luaforge.net/projects/luasdl/ - Provides a good deal
> of graphics and audio functionality. Don't know if this project is
> active.
>
> - Perhaps a basic alternative to LuaExpat for reading (and writing?) XML.
> Options:
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-03/msg00283.html
> http://asbradbury.org/projects/lua-xmlreader/
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaXml
>
> - Something that allows not only reading but also writing compressed
> data. LuaAIO includes a bzip2 binding that I haven't been able to
> track down. There's also http://luaforge.net/projects/lzlib/
>
> - Since it's Lua for Windows, perhaps some useful Win32 stuff like
> registry and clipboard manipulation. Also serial comms would be nice
> (I'd certainly use it for my newb electronics projects). I don't know
> if there are any ready-to-use libraries that provide this in a clean
> way, but it may be worth checking out LuaX:
> http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/askok/luax/ (or smiling irresistably
> at Asko :-D ) and/or LuaSys: http://luaforge.net/projects/luasys/ .
> LuaAIO also includes serial comms, don't know where it came from.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> 2008/9/12 Linker <linker.m.lin@gmail.com>:
>> Please add the concurrentlua to LfW.
>> Thank you.
>> :)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, RJP Computing <rjpcomputing@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> We are proud to announce the next release of Lua for Windows (LfW). Read
>>> the changelog for more information. Enjoy.
>>>
>>> Homepage:
>>> http://luaforwindows.luaforge.net/
>>>
>>> Description:
>>> Lua for Windows is a 'batteries included environment' for
>>> the Lua scripting language on Windows.
>>>
>>> Lua for Windows combines Lua binaries, Lua libraries with a Lua-capable
>>> editor in a single install package for the Microsoft Windows operating
>>> system. Lua for Windows contains everything you need to write, run and
>>> debug Lua scripts on Windows. A wide variety of libraries and examples are
>>> included that are ready to use with Microsoft Windows. Lua for Windows runs
>>> on Windows 2000 and newer versions of Windows. Lua and its associated
>>> libraries are also available for other operating systems, so most scripts
>>> will be automatically cross-platform.
>>>
>>> Changelog:
>>>
>>> 09/11/2008 Version 5.1.4.18
>>> ^ Updated Stdlib to version 8.
>>> ^ Updated the quickluatour.lua.
>>> ^ Updated the luaforwindows document.
>>> * Fixed LuaInterface module.
>>>
>>> ________________________________________________________________
>>> Legend: '+' = Addition, '*' = Bug Fix, '-' = Removed, '~' = Move, '^' =
>>> Updated
>>>
>>> Download:
>>> http://luaforge.net/frs/?group_id=377
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Ryan
>>> RJP Computing
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Linker M Lin
>> linker.m.lin@gmail.com
>>
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