Peter Rolf wrote:
> Hans Hagen schrieb:
>> Peter Rolf wrote:
>>> Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
>>>>> luac5.1.exe [TO] luac.exe
>>>>> etc.
>>>> Alternatively, you can use LuaTeX itself as the lua interpreter and
>>>> compiler. That is, the same binary will act as:
>>>>
>>>> LuaTeX proper when called luatex(.exe)
>>>> lua when called texlua(.exe) (equivalent to luatex --luaonly)
>>>> luac, the compiler, when called texluac.(exe)
>>>>
>>>> So you don't even need lua anymore.
>>> i see. but on windows you waste more than 7mb disk space this way.
>>> installing the lua binaries costs only 288kb. so where is the benefit?
>>>
>>> there must be a better way.
>> these 7 meg gave as advantage
>>
>> - no need to install anything else (no huge ruby/perl or whatever)
>> - bytcode compiler in sync with luatex internals
>> - texlua has the libs that we need built in
has to do with unix where the shebang line will only work with texlua
since "luatex --luaonly" cannot be given, but there it's a symlink
on windows one can copy and/or create an alias or use a small stub;
future versions may have a core dll and three small binaries ... who knows
Hans
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