Lee Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a version of Lua for freedos? Unfortunatly I've > only found a binary for version 4, I am looking for a binary for the > newer version 5.1.1. If there is no binary can lua be compiled in > freedos? Thanks >
I don't know about a DOS binary for 5.1.1 (I don't use Lua) but I did find this news item from 2001 on our web site, which is probably what you are referring to: > > LUA for DOS > Aug 15 2001 by jhall > Ken Yap has patched the Lua script language to compile using BC31 on > DOS. I have posted his patch at ibiblio. Here is Ken's announcement: > This contains patch and bat files to compile LUA with Borland C 3.1 > under DOS. To use: Get the LUA distribution from www.lua.org. Unpack > it. You will find a directory called lua. Unpack [the patch] in this > directory. It will create this file, a patch file and 4 bat files. > Patch the source either with the Unix patch program or by hand, it's > just a one line change. Go to each of the directories in turn and run > the bat files. The executables are lua.exe (interpreter) and luac.exe > (compiler). > And what is Lua? From the web site: Lua is a powerful, light-weight > programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also > frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is > free software. > Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description > constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua > is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic > memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for > configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. > A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide > meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host > of features directly in the language. For example, although Lua is not > a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for > implementing classes and inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an > economy of concepts and keep the language small, while allowing the > semantics to be extended in unconventional ways. Extensible semantics > is a distinguishing feature of Lua. > Lua is a language engine that you can embed into your application. > This means that, besides syntax and semantics, Lua has an API that > allows the application to exchange data with Lua programs and also to > extend Lua with C functions. In this sense, Lua can be regarded as a > language framework for building domain-specific languages. And the download pointed to: > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/lua/ This included a patch to the then-current version of Lua to compile on DOS. Not sure what chose changes entailed, but you might have a look at those patches and see if you can apply them to Lua 5.1.1. I don't know of another place to find a DOS binary of Lua. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
