[PD-dev] integrating pdlua into Pd-extended

[Martin Peach]

If you get the latest source here:
http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz
and then:
make mingw
...it should just work.

Martin


On 2011-03-26 20:20, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> Yeah, we can build Lua on Windows and install it into the MinGW path.
> That's how the rest of the libraries are currently handled. Then the
> installer grabs the .dlls from the MinGW install path.
>
> Have you successfully built Lua on Windows? If so, let me know the
> details, and I'll install it on the build server.
>
> .hc
>
> On Mar 26, 2011, at 6:31 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
>
>>
>> From the gnu make manual it seems that running pkg-config is not
>> recommended inside a Makefile. It should probably be done in the
>> configure stage, but anyway, since liblua has different names on each
>> platform, pkg-config only returns that name.
>> So I ended up just hard-coding liblua names and lua.h path for each OS
>> in the Makefile.
>> Now the nightly build for Windows is failing because it can't resolve
>> -llua51.dll. It seems that there is no standard place to put that dll.
>> Sooo, maybe pd-extended should build lua as well, like portaudio, or
>> should the dll be put in pd/bin, like pthreads.dll?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2011-03-18 23:55, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> Martin,
>>>
>>> I think you could put different pkg-config lines in the per-OS section
>>> of the Makefile, and that would work for differences between
>>> Debian/Ubuntu, Mac OS X, and Windows liblua. That won't help if
>>> different GNU/Linux distros have different names for the lib tho.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 5:02 PM, katja wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> In the original Makefile.static for pdlua it is defined:
>>>>
>>>> lua-5.1.3
>>>>
>>>> This worked for me on OSX.
>>>>
>>>> Katja
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen
>>>> <claude at goto10.org <mailto:claude at goto10.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 18/03/11 17:38, Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The error actually seems to originate in pkg-config not
>>>> finding lua5.1:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From my limited experience, Lua 5.1 libraries have different names
>>>> all over the place, even in different GNU/Linux distros (lua51,
>>>> lua5.1, lua5, lua, ...). A bit of a nightmare.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "pkg-config lua --libs" should do it on Mac OS X/Fink.
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Claude
>>>>
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