I have unfinished work on the following address: Binaries (and 3rd party software required to run lua.exe): http://www.maciel.org/luapocket/luapocket-bin-20060530.zip Source (including VS2005 projects and installer for lua 5.1.1 and luasocket 2.0.1): http://www.maciel.org/luapocket/luapocket-src-20060530.zip If I remember correctly there was a problem reading Unicode characters from the console.