As seen in GitHub issue #57:

https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/issues/57

> I get a crash in Curl when trying to use the latest luarocks-2.0.7.1
> and other weird errors when trying to install.
>
> Might I suggest upgrading the coreutils using this source:
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm
> since it seems newer than UnxUtils? There's also a build of
> wget there: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
>
> curl can be cross-compiled easily from linux using mingw-cross-env:
> http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/ which produces
> statically-linked binaries.
>
> I've tried switching to gnuwin32 wget and coreutils - I replaced
> everything except find (wasn't included in coreutils) and mkdir
> (it seemed to break mkdir -p). My branch does install and work
> cleaner than the 2.0.7.1 zip file.

I don't have a Windows environment to test there. Is anyone
experiencing problems with the binaries shipped with the LuaRocks
win32 zip? Alternatively, does anyone know if these gnuwin32 binaries
are a better fit for the win32 zip?

Thanks in advance!

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/

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