Re: lua console in Windows and other questions

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 10/13/2011 6:29 PM, Christopher Berardi wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:34:12PM -0400, Stephen Blackwell - Applications Engineering wrote:
> > Hi, I'm new to Lua and I'm also more used to Linux than Windows so these
> > questions probably seem very basic.
> >
> > How do I get a Lua console in Windows? I expected that just typing lua
> > an the command prompt would work but it doesn't.

Another option for the OP is to install Cygwin, for a Linux-like 
environment. (But may not be so easy if corporate policies are 
involved.) The terminal, MinTTY, is also available on MSYS. Less 
of a need to retrain muscle memory, etc.

With the correct paths etc, using a non-Cygwin Lua installation 
should not pose a problem. Or build from sources (if additional 
libraries isn't a priority), Lua compiles out-of-the-box for 
Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW.

> [snip]
> So, assuming you installed the Lua binary named lua51.exe into Program Files
> and the Lua directory, a call from the commmand prompt of
>
> > "C:\Program Files\Lua\lua51.exe"
>
> should work.
> [snip]

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Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia