Lua/Luarocks Install instruction on Windows

install_lua.txt

 -- make and install lua --

1.  Download install http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/download.php
2.  Download and unpack Lua source (http://www.lua.org/ftp)
  Tested on Lua 5.1.5 and 5.2.2
3.  Make Lua
  - run mingw builds terminal
  - cd to lua src dir
  - run mingw32-make mingw

!NOTE! for Lua 5.1.5 you need edit `src\Makefile`
  replace 
  `$(AR) $@ $(CORE_O) $(LIB_O)  # DLL needs all object files`
  with
  `$(AR) $@ $(CORE_O) $(LIB_O)`


4.  Make `c:\Lua\5.x` and `c:\Lua\5.x\include` dirs
5.  Make LUA_DIR/LUA_DIR_5_2 env varuable (c:\Lua\5.x)
6.  copy lua.exe,lua5x.dll to %LUA_DIR% (rename lua.exe to lua5x.exe)
7.  copy ... to %LUA_DIR%\include
8.  Add %LUA_DIR%/%LUA_DIR_5_2% to PATH env variable
9.  Add .LUA/.L52 ext to PATHEXT env variable
10. 
  ftype LuaScript="%LUA_DIR%\lua51.exe" "%1" %*
  ftype LuaScript52="%LUA_DIR_5_2%\lua52.exe" "%1" %*
  assoc .lua=LuaScript
  assoc .l52=LuaScript52

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install luarocks
copy `lua5x.exe` to `lua5.x.exe`

 -- for lua 5.1 --
1. get luarocks source (https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks) (i test with master on 2013-09-04 `44a397f4e0b3e2d802104706b84a8ecc6473d4ed`) and unpack this to luarocks_src_dir
  cd  luarocks_src_dir
  win32pack wininst
  cd wininst 
2. run `install /MW /P c:\lua\LuaRocks /INC %LUA_DIR%\include /LIB %LUA_DIR% /BIN %LUA_DIR% /LV 5.1`
3. Set env variables: 
  PATH     : c:\lua\LuaRocks\2.1
  LUA_PATH : c:\lua\LuaRocks\share\lua\5.1\?.lua;c:\lua\LuaRocks\share\lua\5.1\?\init.lua
  LUA_CPATH: c:\lua\LuaRocks\lib\lua\5.1\?.dll
4. Edit `c:\lua\LuaRocks\2.1\luarocks.bat` 
  Add `SET PATH=C:\Program Files\mingw-builds\x64-4.8.1-win32-seh-rev5\mingw64\bin;%PATH%`
5. Edit `c:\lua\LuaRocks\config.lua`
  remove line `MSVCRT = 'MSVCR80'`
  add two elements to variables table (CC = "gcc", LD = "gcc")

to test try
  luarocks install date
  luarocks install lbase64
  lua5.1 -ldate -lbase64

 -- lua 5.2 --
 
1-6 almost same as for lua 5.1
install /MW /P c:\lua\LuaRocks52 /INC %LUA_DIR_5_2%\include /LIB %LUA_DIR_5_2% /BIN %LUA_DIR_5_2% /LV 5.2
variables:
  PATH          : c:\lua\LuaRocks52\2.1
  LUA_PATH_5_2  : c:\lua\LuaRocks52\share\lua\5.2\?.lua;c:\lua\LuaRocks52\share\lua\5.2\?\init.lua
  LUA_CPATH_5_2 : c:\lua\LuaRocks52\lib\lua\5.2\?.dll

7. Edit `c:\lua\LuaRocks52\2.1\luarocks.bat` 
  Replace `SET LUA_PATH=` to `SET LUA_PATH_5_2=`
8. Rename `c:\lua\LuaRocks52\2.1\luarocks.bat` to `c:\lua\LuaRocks52\2.1\luarocks52.bat` 

to test try
  luarocks52 install date
  luarocks52 install lbase64
  lua5.2 -ldate -lbase64