> -----Original Message----- > From: David Ryan [mailto:dpr...@gmail.com] > Sent: donderdag 3 juli 2014 0:37 > To: luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Luarocks-developers] Installing over "Lua for Windows" > > Hi Thijs, > > That worked! Thanks. Apparently mingw was able to compile/link the > luafilesystem (even though my visual studio was unable). > > The only tricky part was for some reason luarocks wasn't able to fetch some > of the packages hosted on github. (Might be a proxy issue, even though I > have http_proxy properly set? I tried the config.lua proxy setting, too.)
If this doesn't work, then please post an issue on the github tracker. > > At any rate, I would just open the rockspec, download the source url > manually (e.g. 'https://github.com/Olivine- > Labs/busted/archive/v2.0.rc0.tar.gz') and then update the rockspec to point > to it locally... C:/path/to/downloaded/v2.0.rc0.tar.gz. > > That workaround let me install without issue. (I only had to do it for two > of the packages: busted and mediator_lua). A common way is to create a rockspec in the repo main dir, and then from that dir do 'luarocks make'. But then the author must have created the rockspec in the main dir. > > Anyway, thanks again for your help. > > -David > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Thijs Schreijer <th...@thijsschreijer.nl> > wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Ryan [mailto:dpr...@gmail.com] > > Sent: woensdag 2 juli 2014 23:09 > > To: luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Luarocks-developers] Installing over "Lua for Windows" > > > > I'm trying to install the latest luarocks over "Lua for Windows." > > > > I see a "spot" for how to do this on the wiki > > (http://luarocks.org/en/Installation_instructions_for_Windows), but it is > > blank, and I've spun too many hours trying to figure out how to do it on > my > > own. > > > > Ultimately, I'm just trying to install "busted," but couldn't get > > luafilesystem dependency to compile from source. Since luafilesystem is > > included with "Lua for Windows," I thought I could use that to satisfy the > > dependency. But the luarocks that comes with "Lua for Windows" doesn't > seem > > to work, and I can't figure out how to install the latest version over it > > (at least, in such a way that luarocks sees the rocks that are already > > installed.) > > > > Has anyone had any luck with doing this? (Or just getting "busted" to > > install in general on Windows...) > Tried it a long time ago, but never succeeded. > > Have a look here; http://www.thijsschreijer.nl/blog/?p=863 > > Thijs > > > > > Thanks, > > David > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse > Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition > Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows > Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft > _______________________________________________ > Luarocks-developers mailing list > Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
