Re: [wxlua-users] Difference between Lua and wxLua executable

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

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Milind Gupta <mil...@gm...>wrote:

>
> So when you do this do you get the same differences or is it just
> something on my system? Since these are run from the same Lua package but
> show different renderings I am really curious why this happens.
>
>
Hummm, I do see the same differences you do and I get the same results even
when I compile it fresh using MSVC 2008 (the sourceforge packages were
built with MSVC 6).

I ran depends[1] on them and found that they all use the exact same DLLs
except for these differences :

They both use these two DLLS (note I built using 64-bit arch)
c:\windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.9200.16579_none_418ab7ef718b27ef\COMCTL32.DLL
c:\windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.9200.16579_none_8937eec6860750f5\COMCTL32.DLL

wx.dll also uses this which is older and that may explain the older looking
calendar control.
c:\windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_5.82.9200.16384_none_bf100cd445f4d954\COMCTL32.DLL

I believe it has something to do with the manifest file, lua.exe is not
compiled with one, but all the wxLua apps use the wxWidget manifest file.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb773175%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I suppose I could try building lua.exe using a similar manifest file and
see if that changes anything.

Regards,
     John


[1] http://www.dependencywalker.com/