On 15 March 2016 at 10:45, Thijs Schreijer <th...@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote: > >> -----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.
I see. I wonder if we could ever do something about that, but I believe we just don't have the resources to provide binary packages. I don't know if there is any way we could automate this significantly and work around the issue of external dependencies in a good way. -- Hisham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
