luawinmake

Windows batch file to build Lua from source. Simply place the ./etc/winmake.bat file in your downloaded and unpacked Lua source folder (in a /etc/ subfolder). And run it from the root folder to build Lua (eg. etc\winmake /help).

Make sure that your compiler is in your system path before running it. For the Microsoft toolchains you can use their commandshell. The TDM release also has a shell available for 32 and 64 bit.

NOTE: if you're interested in a more complete Lua setup, checkout luawinmulti, which builds on top of luawinmake.

Downloads

If all you need is a quick Windows binary, then checkout the CI build artifacts. Select the version you need and download the archive from the artifacts.

Commands

• etc\winmake /help displays usage info
• etc\winmake builds the Lua installation
• etc\winmake <toolchain> builds using the specified toolchain, skips auto detection
• etc\winmake clean cleans the (intermediate) build results
• etc\winmake local installs the build Lua version in .\local\
• etc\winmake localv installs the build Lua version in .\local\ in a versioned manner
• etc\winmake install <path> installs the build Lua version in <path>
• etc\winmake install <path> installs the build Lua version in <path> in a versioned manner

Available flags;

• --nocompat When building, this will disable all compatibilty flags (otherwise default flags same as the MinGW make file will be used)

File structure

Installing creates a structure similar to the standard Lua MinGW install;

{root}
  +-- bin
  +-- include
  +-- lib
  |    +-- lua
  |         +-- <LuaVersion>
  +-- man
  |    +-- man1
  +-- share
       +-- lua
            +-- <LuaVersion>

The localv and installv commands create versioned installations, with the following differences;

{root}
  +-- bin                      --> eg. contains lua52.exe and luac52.exe
  +-- include
  |    +-- lua
  |         +-- <LuaVersion>   --> containing the header files
  +-- lib
  |    +-- lua
  |         +-- <LuaVersion>
  +-- man
  |    +-- man1
  +-- share
       +-- lua
            +-- <LuaVersion>

Compatibility

It auto detects the Lua version from the source code. It was tested with;

• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3

Lua is build with the default compatibility options (mimics the unix makefiles for each of the Lua versions listed above). Unless the --nocompat flag is used.

It supports MS and GCC based compilers (autodetects; uses the first one found in the system path), and was tested with;

• Win7 SDK
• Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015
• MinGW
• TDM32
• TDM64

Thanks to

• The Lua team for a great language
• @ignacio for testing various Visual Studio builds

License

MIT