Hi, libffi is not a luarock, it is a C library that alien wraps in a Lua interface.
https://sourceware.org/libffi/ You would then need to set FFI to point at your installed libffi when you ask LuaRocks to build the alien rock on your machine: luarocks FFI=/path/to/ffi/library install alien I say there’s a reasonable chance that one or both of libffi and alien are not ported to Windows. HTH! > On 22 Mar 2016, at 19:28, Hernan Cano <cano.her...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, friends. > > I have a problem installing a LuaRock. > > If I try to install Alien with this command: > > luarocks install alien > > It say that lacks FFI. Then I go to install FFI with one of these: > > luarocks install ffi > luarocks install libffi > luarocks install luaffi > luarocks install ffi.lib > luarocks install ffi.dll > > or several others.... it says that cannot find it. > > I tried also luarocks install --server=http://luarocks.org/dev luaffi, as the > LuaFFI's webpage says, but the same result. > > -------------------------- > I consider that for installing Alien, I just need FFI. > Can you say me what of the several FFI's that are in LuaRocks is what I must > install and how? > > Thanks. > > > <image.png> > > <image.png> > > > <image.png> > > <image.png> > > <image.png> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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=278785351&iu=/4140_______________________________________________ > Luarocks-developers mailing list > Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
