On 13 May, 2013, at 10:02 , steve donovan <steve.j.dono...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Hisham <h...@hisham.hm> wrote:
> I don't know either. Perhaps LuaRocks should use a different binary
> suffix identifier? Still, "linux-x86" is no guarantee of ABI
> compatibility, either.
> 
> Exactly! My feeling is that the old MSVC 2005 runtime should be put out of 
> its misery. When LfW is end-of-lifed and new version based on LuaDist 
> batteries (+ LuaRocks) arrives, then there should be no confusion.  It 
> remains important for LR to recognize then that this platform binary is only 
> appropriate for a mingw environment - people with MSVC will build their own.

I am currently battling the same issue while trying to merge things together.

I am using the following notations on Windows:

Windows-x86 = MinGW32 (official)
Windows-x86_64 = MinGW64 (TDM recommended)
Windows-msvc = Visual Studio (Visual Studio Express 11, free to download), this 
is 64bit only

pd
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