2014-05-27 2:55 GMT+02:00 Hisham <h...@hisham.hm>: > On 26 May 2014 15:45, François Perrad <francois.per...@gadz.org> wrote: >> 2014-05-26 13:49 GMT+02:00 Thijs Schreijer <th...@thijsschreijer.nl>: >>> Maybe best to add as a request to the issue tracker? [1] as it breaks >>> rockspec compatibility, it can then be tagged as a possible 3.0 feature. >>> >>> Btw; if I understand correctly, it builds only the library to be used for >>> static linking? So after installing it using LR one won't be able to use it >>> without additional actions. Correct? >>> >> >> Yes. >> >> With shared lib, LuaRocks makes easy to extend Lua. >> But Lua is not only extensible, Lua is also embeddable. >> For example, a project like Textadept (http://foicica.com/textadept/) >> embeds lua as lib, lfs and lpeg. >> Building this kind of project could be easy if LuaRocks creates static >> lib for lfs and lpeg, >> and installs them in the same place as lualib (and includes with lua.h). > > One thing to have in mind is that we can't promise that --static will > work for every rockspec. > > It would be easy to add --static to builtin-type rocks, but asking > devs to support --static in all other types (makefiles come to mind) > would add an extra burden to writing rockspecs. > > We could simply error out with "--static is not supported for this > rockspec" when build.type ~= "builtin", and perhaps add a > static_target option to build.make for those rockspec authors willing > to do the effort. > > Does that sound all right? >
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