On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Linus Sjögren
<thel...@unreliablepollution.net> wrote:
> This issue has probably been brought up before, but it cannot be
> stressed enough:
> A Luarock for wxLua is _needed_.
>
> Being able to tell your users to simply run a one-shot command to
> install wxLua is much easier than getting them to visit some site,
> download, and do scary stuff.
> I, for one, almost turned away as soon as I saw there was no Luarock
> to be found and I had to pretty much force myself to download the
> source and build for myself.
wxLua is not a simple module for Lua. In order to compile wxLua you
need to have first compiled wxWidgets, which while being relatively
straightforward can have a number of complications for an automated
installer. I don't think it would ever be possible or even desirable
to create a rockspec that tries to compile wxLua.
However if LuaRock can simply copy precompiled binaries/libraries then
it could work. If you are familiar with LuaRock and creating their
rockspec files I welcome you to download one of the wxLua binaries
(assuming you're on MS Windows) and trying to see if you can get
LuaRock to do whatever it's supposed to do (copy files somewhere else
I guess?).
If you're on Linux, that's a little harder. It is possible to create a
universal(ish) binary of wxWidgets that will run on the "standard"
Linux distributions, but I have not tried that. If all goes well with
the MS Windows rock file we can see about a Linux version.
In any case, if you're in MS Windows, just download one of the zip
files of the binaries and run the programs in the /bin folder...
that's it.
Regards,
John
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