On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Jerome Vuarand <[email protected]> wrote: > What would happen if I try to install a C module as source on a > luarocks installation without C compiler? Would it fail for the whole > rock or issue warnings for just these modules?
It would bomb out and refuse to install after that. > describe the action to take if a C module cannot be compiled, and > could be set to 'ignore', 'warning' or 'error', with the current > behavior as default. I guess the assumption has been is that there will be some build environment present, which is easy enough to ensure on Linux and straightforward on OS X (they give you the disk!). Windows people are often compiler-phobic. For Windows there is always an option to make binary packages available, built against VC2005. (Getting a copy of that is becoming ... interesting ;)) steve d. _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
