Building the luafilesystem for Lua for Windows

Question

I have no clue when it comes to creating makefiles - I'm trying to create a luafilesystem on Windows 7 x86 for use with Lua for Windows. I studied the internet for study guides, but I just can't figure it out. I got to running NMAKE on the developer's command line, but received the following error:

C:\Users\Me\Desktop\luafilesystem-master\luafilesystem-master>nmake -f Makefile.win

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

cl /c /Fosrc\lfs.obj /MD /O2 /I"c:\lua5.1\include" src\lfs.c Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 18.00.30723 for x86 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

lfs.c

src\lfs.c(63) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'lua.h': No such file or directory

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\BIN\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2'

Stop.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. There were no lua.h in the set of files downloaded directly from the official LuaFileSystem repository.

All I want to do is install lfs for use in lua. If you cannot understand what I am doing wrong, but maybe find out an easier way, please share. Hope I have provided enough information. Thanks.

Answer 1

You need the Lua interpreter that you are compiling to be compiled and available on your computer to access its header files ( lua.h and several others) and the Lua library / DLL files. After you compile the correct version of the Lua interpreter, you need (be it Lua 5.1 or Lua 5.2), set the environment variables (or update the paths in the make file) LUA_LIBDIR, LUA_INC and LUA_LIB to point to your lua-folder , lua-folder\src , and lua lib respectively.