On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:23 AM, steve donovan<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote: > deprecate good old mscvrt.dll makes for life of headaches. (Mingw can > actually build against the new runtimes, but not always.) For reference, this is how you can build lfs with mingw for Lua for Windows: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-07/msg00309.html This was an interesting challenge, because of some API renamings detailed in that post. Ralph Hempel on persuading LuaRocks to use mingw: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-08/msg00091.html steve d.