Re: [wxlua-users] Compiling monolithic version on Windows (using 2.8.12.2)

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I think I'm close, but still not there yet. I did get luawx.dll
> library, but it's 12+M in size and it depends on
> libwxlua_lua51-wx28mswu-2.8.12.dll (which seems to be a renamed lua

It is the Lua library dll named so that it will not clash with
anybody's elses Lua dlls.

> dll). There are also several other libraries, but the application
> seems to work without them:
>
> 12,318,932 libwx.dll
>  3,480,509 libwxlua-wx28mswu-2.8.12.dll
> 11,973,978 libwxlua_bind-wx28mswu-2.8.12.dll
>  3,413,790 libwxlua_debug-wx28mswu-2.8.12.dll
>    215,408 libwxlua_lua51-wx28mswu-2.8.12.dll
>  3,405,545 libwxlua_socket-wx28mswu-2.8.12.dll
>     61,395 lua.exe
>    219,561 luac.exe

Did you build the shared libs first and these remain in the build
directory from this earlier build?

> Why do all the names start from libwx? Also, the library seems to be

Because they are all libraries for wxLua. Currently I do not bother to
detect that gcc is being used in Windows and I treat them like Linux
libraries where there is an expectation that they might be installed
to the system /usr/lib dir with hundreds of other libraries so they
must have unique names that describe what they are to the rest of the
world.

> much larger in size than yours (12M vs. 5.5M) and this is in
> MinSizeRel configuration. I couldn't find any setting that would
> affect the size.

Gcc creates much larger libraries and executables than Visual Studio,
this is to be expected.

> Is this possible to link against an existing *real* lua.dll
> (lua5.1.dll or lua51.dll), rather than against
> libwxlua_lua51-wx28mswu-2.8.12.dll?

What do you mean "real"? Would a rose by any other name not smell as sweet?

Why isn't modules/luaproxydll/lua51.dll and lua5.1.dll not copied over
to the build/bin dir? The root CMakeLists.txt should copy them over if
WIN32 is declared for Mingw, is it somehow not declared?

Regards,
    John