The curse of Dennis D. Spreen

What about sharing the compiled binaries to avoid downloading a 600 MB compiler suite from Microsoft ?

here you go lua5.3.0.zip
If you’d compile it by yourself, you would be able to adjust some settings (luaconf.h) by your needs.

x86 and x64 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express Compile
http://1drv.ms/1DEAkLw

and Thanks for compile tip Dennis.

Thank you sir! I am very glad to have found your tutorial.

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Awesome! I was looking for something like this!

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Thank you, safe me many hours

The build script you posted didn’t work properly for me. There were build errors and it didn’t output a DLL. I modified it so it works, and compiles much faster:

del *.obj *.dll *.lib *.o *.exp

cl -MP -MD -O2 -c -DLUA_BUILD_AS_DLL *.c
ren luac.obj luac.o
link -subsystem:console -dll -implib:lua53.lib -out:lua53.dll *.obj
link -out:lua.exe lua.obj lua53.lib
lib -out:lua53-static.lib *.obj
link -out:luac.exe luac.o lua53-static.lib

Can someone tell me how I compile the interpreter and the dll for x64?

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Hi lamonese,
I build 64-bit Lua with VS2014/15 (win10). You find the hints (written in german) here:

* how to prepare VS : https://lua64bit.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/wie-erstelle-ich-mit-vs-ein-64-bit-modul/
* build 64-bit lua: https://lua64bit.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/selfmade-lua/

To keep with Lua’s dynamic nature Ravi uses a mix of compile type checking and runtime type checks. However due to the dynamic nature of Lua, compilation happens at runtime anyway so effectually all checks are at runtime.

ummm VG… i’m concerned about the del command, so im not using your command until i get that error

Hi Dennis,
Thanks for your lua5.3.0.zip compiled package from 2015. Still works like a charm :-).
I’m using it with the Atom editor and linter-lua package. Perfect!
Arjan

how do i compile wlua for lua 5.3.4 or 5.3.3?

Thank you so much for your help, I just compiled lua with msvc2015 32 bits thanks to you

Hello,

I came here by hazard, if someone is interested, this is the Makefile I use to statically link Lua with MSVC (embedded usage).

https://github.com/vtudorache/lua-msvc/blob/master/Makefile

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@Vlad: Thank you!

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