How to compile Lua 5.3.5 for Windows
This is a tutorial on how to compile Lua 5.3.5 for Windows (executable and DLL) with Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition.
1. Download and install Visual Studio Community Edition 2019 – do not use any older/newer version (haven’t tested them)
2. Download and extract the Lua 5.3.5 source code
3. Open a x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019, navigate to the extracted Lua src/ folder and run inside this folder the following commands
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cl /MD /O2 /c /DLUA_BUILD_AS_DLL *.c ren lua.obj lua.o ren luac.obj luac.o link /DLL /IMPLIB:lua5.3.5.lib /OUT:lua5.3.5.dll *.obj link /OUT:lua.exe lua.o lua5.3.5.lib lib /OUT:lua5.3.5-static.lib *.obj link /OUT:luac.exe luac.o lua5.3.5-static.lib |
You’re done! You should now have a lua.exe interpreter, a luac.exe compiler and a lua5.3.0.dll.
2 Comments to How to compile Lua 5.3.5 for Windows
This is fantastic! The instructions on the Lua website are really complicated and in some ways outdated. Thanks Dennis!
March 25, 2022
Hi, will the built library (using your instructions) allow dinamically loading other dll lua modules?
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