I am trying to install the latest version of Luarocks, obtained from luarocks's official site. Firstly, I used the Lua binaries obtained from LuaForge Lua Binaries project referred from Official Lua site. But the install script returns the following error (trailed output because of stack overflow restrictions) :
LuaRocks 2.4.x installer.
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== Checking system... ==
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Admin privileges available for installing
Looking for Lua interpreter
checking C:\Programs\Lua
Found lua.exe, testing it...
Interpreter found, now looking for link libraries...
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua5.3.lib
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua53.lib
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua5.3.dll
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua53.dll
Found lua53.dll
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Could not find Lua. See /? for options for specifying the location of Lua, or installing a bundled copy of Lua 5.1.
Failed installing LuaRocks. Run with /? for help.
Then I used another Lua binaries obtained from Lua - joedf's Builds referred from Official Lua site. But the install script returns the following error (trailed output because of stack overflow restrictions) :
LuaRocks 2.4.x installer.
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== Checking system... ==
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Admin privileges available for installing
Looking for Lua interpreter
checking C:\Programs\Lua
Found lua53.exe, testing it...
Interpreter found, now looking for link libraries...
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua5.3.lib
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua53.lib
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua5.3.dll
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua53.dll
Found lua53.dll
Link library found, now looking for headers...
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\include\lua\5.3\lua.h
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\include\lua53\lua.h
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\include\lua5.3\lua.h
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\include\lua.h
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua.h
checking C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv
Found lua53.exe, testing it...
Interpreter found, now looking for link libraries...
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua5.3.lib
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua53.lib
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua5.3.dll
checking for C:\Programs\Lua\lua53.dll
Found lua53.dll
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Could not find Lua. See /? for options for specifying the location of Lua, or installing a bundled copy of Lua 5.1.
Failed installing LuaRocks. Run with /? for help.
Then I used another Lua binaries obtained from LuaDist referred from official Lua site. It already includes luarocks, but an older version. Using this version results the following error : Orbit Installation Using Luarocks in Windows. So, tried install script of luarocks. The installation is successful, and I configured the following variables according to the installer instruction (trailed output because of stack overflow restrictions) :
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== LuaRocks is installed! ==
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You may want to add the following elements to your paths;
Lua interpreter;
PATH : C:\Programs\Binaries-LuaDist-batteries-0.9.8-Windows-x86\bin
PATHEXT : .LUA
LuaRocks;
PATH : C:\Program Files (x86)\LuaRocks
LUA_PATH : C:\Program Files (x86)\LuaRocks\lua\?.lua;C:\Program Files (x86)\LuaRocks\lua\?\init.lua
Local user rocktree (Note: %APPDATA% is user dependent);
PATH : %APPDATA%\LuaRocks\bin
LUA_PATH : %APPDATA%\LuaRocks\share\lua\5.1\?.lua;%APPDATA%\LuaRocks\share\lua\5.1\?\init.lua
LUA_CPATH: %APPDATA%\LuaRocks\lib\lua\5.1\?.dll
System rocktree
PATH : c:\programs\binaries-luadist-batteries-0.9.8-windows-x86\\bin
LUA_PATH : c:\programs\binaries-luadist-batteries-0.9.8-windows-x86\\share\lua\5.1\?.lua;c:\programs\binaries-luadist-batteries-0.9.8-windows-x86\\share\lua\5.1\?\init.lua
LUA_CPATH: c:\programs\binaries-luadist-batteries-0.9.8-windows-x86\\lib\lua\5.1\?.dll
Note that the %APPDATA% element in the paths above is user specific and it MUST
be replaced by its actual value.
For the current user that value is: C:\Users\Banee-Ishaque-K\AppData\Roaming.
But luarocks command now returns
windows can't open this file
error, what will do? I am working on Windows 7 64 bit and there is no compilation method for Windows for manual compilation of Lua instead of using binaries.
The Solution is, just specify the Lua installation directory to Luarocks Installation script(INSTALL.bat) file using CMD line argument /LUA. In the above case,
C:\Programs\luarocks-2.4.2-win32>install.bat /LUA C:\Programs\Binaries-LuaDist-batteries-0.9.8-Windows-x86
will install Luarocks successfully. Tested & Verified on Win 7 64 bit with Lua 5.1 64 bit along with Luarocks 2.4.2 win32 package.
To Install Luarocks; Lua interpreter,link libraries,headers & runtime must be present in the system. The binaries from LuaForge Lua Binaries project & Lua - joedf's Builds only contains Lua interpreter & link libraries. That's why the first two methods failed with errors.
Lua binaries obtained from LuaDist contains Lua interpreter,link libraries & headers; The runtime will be available in most windows systems used for development purpose (if not, we can install matching ( version that is used to compile Lua source to binary) Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables from Microsoft website). But, the problem is ..\Binaries-LuaDist-batteries-0.9.8-Windows-x86\bin is in path. the folder contains only Lua interpreter. link libraries & headers are in ..\Binaries-LuaDist-batteries-0.9.8-Windows-x86 folder.