On 25 March 2013 19:11, Thijs Schreijer <th...@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote: > List, > > I can’t get LuaRocks and MinGW to play nice when installing LuaSocket. > Nothing new; > http://lists.luaforge.net/pipermail/luarocks-developers/2011-January/002289.html > > So I figured; let’s take the binaries…
I don't know if the binaries available are compatible with MinGW; I think Fabio built them with MSVC. But I'm no Windows expert, so I don't know if it's supposed to work or not. > I downloaded the binary rock; luasocket-2.0.2-3.win32-x86.rock > > Ran “luarocks unpack luasocket-2.0.2-3.win32-x86.rock” to unpack it. > > But how do I get it installed? “install” tries building it again. I also > tried copying the files manually, but then when installing a module that > depends on LuaSocket, it will retry to install/build it, which fails, and > the depending package also fails. > > How to go about this? Any help is appreciated `luarocks install luasocket-2.0.2-3.win32-x86.rock` should install the binaries without recompiling. Did you try that? -- Hisham http://hisham.hm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
