[wxlua-users] wxLua module (was Re: build system update)

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Francesco Montorsi ha scritto:
>   2) renamed lua5.1 library built by wxLua to libwxlua_gtk2d_lua-2.8.a; 
> that is, to a lib which follows wxLua naming conventions. This is more 
> coherent with the way we call the (vanilla) lua intepreter which we 
> build: wxlua-lua. That is, if we care about not replacing the 
> system-wide "lua" executable, we should care also about not replacing 
> the system-wide "lua5.1" library.
> 
> I don't remember why we decided to call our verbatim lua library 
> "lua5.1"... do you see anything wrong with calling it using our naming 
> convention?
Ok, I now remember why we decided to call it lua5.1; the wx.dll module we build 
from modules\luamodule is coinceived to be used as any other Lua module.  I.e. 
it must be linked against a DLL/DSO named "lua5.1" not "wxlua_msw28_lua".

So, I think we have no other choice that making our "lua" module build a library 
named lua5.1 and then install it in standard paths, eventually overwriting the 
preexisting one.

This should not be a big problem since the name is versioned and we're using 
vanilla lua now. It may just be a problem if someone modified lua and thus has 
in system paths a custom version (but this is a bad practice anyway; that user 
should consider to name its custom library in some other way).

Do you agree with this change?

Once we get this up and running I think we should also

   1) add our "wx" module to this list:

       http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaBinaryModules (look at the end)

   2) publish in the next release a single .ZIP download which contains only the 
wxLua+wxWidgets DLLs + wx.dll module; so that users could just unzip them and 
start using wx.dll module as for any other lua module.


Francesco