> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Hisham [mailto:h...@hisham.hm] > Verzonden: Tuesday, 15 March, 2016 1:00 > Aan: LuaRocks developers list > Onderwerp: [Luarocks-developers] "Quick Start" for Windows? > > Hi, > > I was wondering if it is at all possible to have a quick list of command- > line instructions for Windows that gets LuaRocks up and running, just like > we have for Unix at the luarocks.org front page: > > > Quick Start > > > > Installing LuaRocks in a Unix system: > > > > $ wget http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.3.0.tar.gz > > $ tar zxpf luarocks-2.3.0.tar.gz > > $ cd luarocks-2.3.0 > > $ ./configure; sudo make bootstrap > > $ sudo luarocks install luasocket > > $ lua > > Lua 5.3.2 Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > > > require "socket" > > An example of a website that includes something like this for Windows is > the Chocolatey package manager: > > https://chocolatey.org/ > > Do you think that we could have less confusion about the default setup if > we put some kind of instruction like this up front in the website? > > -- Hisham >
I don't think that the LuaRocks installation is the issue here of holding back Windows users to use it. The problem lies in the harmony required between the Lua version (actually the underlying runtime lib used), compiler toolchain and LuaRocks Note: chocolatey only does binary distribution And within the Lua ecosystem we're leaning towards the gcc toolchain, probably mainly because most Lua code is unix based and gcc/MinGW is closest to that. It's a different angle, but this is mainly where I got the inspiration for my luawinmake and luawinmulti projects. I might add a similar instruction to the LuaWinMulti project to make it even easier. Though the culprit for the average Windows user will always be the need for a compiler toolchain, which is very non-Windows as Windows is basically a binary distribution platform. Thijs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
