On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote: >> > Are you opposed to a cygwin target? Uses DLLs like mingw but with '/' >> > path separator and has readline. >> >> Last time it was discussed (in 2006 when we released 5.1) the sentiment was >> that it wasn't worth it but I don't recall the details right now. > > Here's a more recent discussion: > http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-10/msg00078.html > http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-10/msg00080.html Since that discussion, Yaakov Selkowitz has uploaded a Cygwin package [1-3]. This provides shared library support (cyglua-5.1.dll), which "make linux" under Cygwin does not. Note the patches applied in the Lua cygport source distribution [3]. A convention in Cygwin, BTW, is to prefix shared libraries by "cyg". [1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-06/msg00035.html [2] http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=lua%2Flua-5.1.4-11&grep=lua [3] http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/release/Lua/lua/