Re: [ANN] Winapi - a minimal but useful Windows API binding

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

2011/6/14 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Jerome Vuarand
> <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My build system can generate such monolithic apps, and I even wrote
>> one that can modify its own exe file to replace/incorporate Lua
>> scripts. Not formally released yet, but I can give indications to find
>> the source code online.
>
> Lorenzo reports that he has got "an UPXed srlua.exe statically linked
> with Lua core and winapi that is about 85 kB and only depends on
> MSVCRT.dll and other known Windows DLLs".  That's pretty small for a
> full programming language!  I remain seriously impressed with the
> power/weight ratio of Lua.
>
> As for the '32' part, I'm regularly using 64-bit Windows, and it was
> surprisingly easy to adapt (but remember 'long' is still 32 bits!).
> There is a theoretical problem with pushing 64-bit pointers around in
> doubles, but it seems ok so far.
>
> I remain interested in the problem of making Lua on Windows more
> unicode-aware, _without_ direct patching. Lua file object metatables
> are freely re-usable in stock Lua, but LuaJIT is doing some voodoo.
> One step is to make LuaFileSystem more unicode-aware for Windows.[1]

I have that too :-)

For Lua itself it's mostly there:
http://hg.piratery.net/electronmeat/src/tip/srcweb/lua-5.1.4/lua-wstring.patch

And http://hg.piratery.net/electronmeat/src/tip/srcweb/lua-5.1.4/lua-wstring.patch
for some other patches that may be related.

For LFS it's there:
http://hg.piratery.net/electronmeat/src/tip/srcweb/luafilesystem-1.2.1/win32-utf-8.patch

> There is cool stuff in lwin32 that you should consider making more
> public - yes I know documentation is a bitch, but otherwise it's just
> going to be people who read C for breakfast.

It's not public yet because I'd like to replace most of the manual
bindings with generated ones, to ease the addition of new ones. But
maybe you had more specific (cool) bits in mind?