I installed luarocks and now I am trying to use it to install luasocket.
My command is
luarocks install luasocket-2.0.2-3.win32-x86.rock
and the response I get is
C:\Program Files (x86)\LuaRocks\lua\luarocks\command_line.lua:186: bad argument #1 to 'require' (string expected, got table)
The line of code in command_line.lua giving trouble is
if commands[command] then
local cmd = require(commands[command])
and putting trace writes in the code reveals that commands[command] is indeed a table, of length zero.
This sort of fundamental runtime error is way beyond anything a Lua novice can be expected to fix. Any suggestions?
Edit
Turns out it's not just luasocket. I get the same problem with
luarocks install luafilesystem
Turns out that this is caused by having an old LuaRocks 2.0.10 installation that I wasn't aware of. It was put there by a failed attempt to install LuaDist-Batteries.
Solution here: https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues/714 .