RE: luarocks config problem on Windows

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

Could you please retry this with the 2.3RC1 version? some changes have been made with the configuration files.



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From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] on behalf of 书呆彭, Peng Yi [nerditation@outlook.com]
Sent: 24 December 2015 16:57
To: Lua mailing list
Subject: luarocks config problem on Windows

Hi list,

I am trying to install luarocks on my Windows 10 system. luarocks installed just fine,
but I encounter some config problems. I use mingw toolchain. when I try to build the
luafilesystem rock, I got the error

 >
 > C:\Users\nerditation>luarocks install luafilesystem
 > Installing https://luarocks.org/luafilesystem-1.6.3-1.src.rock...
 > Using https://luarocks.org/luafilesystem-1.6.3-1.src.rock... switching to 'build' mode
 > mingw32-gcc -O2 -c -o src/lfs.o -Id:/Applications/lua/luadist/include/ src/lfs.c
 > 'mingw32-gcc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
 > operable program or batch file
 >
 > Error: Build error: Failed compiling object src/lfs.o
 >

since I use the Twilight Dragon Media MinGW_w64 distribution, a.k.a. tdm-gcc, there is
no 'mingw32-gcc.exe' but 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe' instead, and of course the 'gcc.exe'.

I edited the 'config-5.2.lua' file of luarocks to add the following variables:

 > --[[...]]
 > variables = {
 >     MSVCRT = 'm',   -- make MinGW use MSVCRT.DLL as runtime
 >     LUALIB = 'liblua.dll.a'
 >     CC = 'gcc',
 >     LD = 'gcc',
 > }
 >--[[...]]

but luarocks won't see it and still tried to call mingw32-gcc, and link against lua5.2.lib.

I can work around it by modify luarocks/cfg.lua and change the default value of those variables,
but I wonder whether it is a bug of luarocks, or I am missing something?

b.t.w. the version is luarocks 2.2.3


thanks.

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