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Error thrown every time i try to run premake

i wanted to tryout premake5 for a project, but every time i try to run

premake5 vs2019

it throws:

Error: ** Error: Cannot find either vs2005.lua or vs2005.lua.lua or vs2005.lua/premake5.lua or vs2005.lua/premake4.lua

I have no idea what the issue could be since i dont know anything about premake.

Here is what I've tried:

  1. Recompiling premake5 from source.
  2. Tried running the example code(https://premake.github.io/docs/Your-First-Script).
  3. Googling the error code.
Solution

  • Trunk version is indeed broken (by me :-/ with that commit the 9th august 2023)

    There is already that PR to fix that issue in trunk.

    Wait for merge which should come soon, or apply it locally
    Merge is done, so update,
    or use tagged version.

    Working with trunk version might have those kind of issue. Using release/tagged version should mitigate that.