Self-runnable Lua 5.1 pre-compiled binaries for Windows, for building Lua scripts into executable files.
DISCLAIMER: this is not my code, and I do not take credit for it. I'm uploading these binaries since the original source is no longer available (through conventional means), compiling from source is not possible on Windows (at the moment); and many Windows users (like me, who enjoy Lua) will find these tools of great use in their own projects.
Self-runnable and glue binaries used in building Windows executable files from Lua script files. Recovered from an archived (not so easy to find) source. The "binaries" branch contains exclusively the binary files from the release folder, if you would rather skip importing the source code and get only the binaries to build your project.
Paraphrasing the original README: for each Lua program that you want to turn into a stand-alone program, do:
glue.exe srlua.exe program.lua program.exe
Where:
- glue.exe points to the location of the glue.exe binary file
- srlua.exe points to the location of the srlua.exe binary file
- program.lua points to the location of the Lua source file you want to compile
- program.exe points to the location of the output executable file that will be created from your Lua source file, where "program" can be named freely and changed to whatever valid name, as desired.
All four binary and DLL files must be located in the same directory. Also, note that by building an executable from a Lua file, imported modules will not be bundled into the executable. Imported modules must be present at the location specified in "require()" calls, though different implementations may be possible.
Great question. Every mirror of these source files provides detailed instructions about how to build the binaries in Linux; instructions for Windows remain unclear for me, and seemingly, for others too, as there is little-to-none information on the web about how to achieve this without facing numerous issues when attempting to adapt the Linux-based build files to a Windows setup. Feel free to let me know if you find a standardized step-by-step solution so I can share it here, too.
"This is a self-running Lua interpreter. It is meant to be combined with a Lua program (which may be in either text or precompiled form) into a single, stand-alone program that will run the given Lua program when it is run.
The command-line arguments will be available to the Lua program in a table called "arg" and also as '...'. All standard Lua libraries will be available too. If you want to use a different set of libraries, just copy linit.c from the Lua source, add it to srlua.c and edit luaL_openlibs to suit your needs.
The Makefile is targeted at Unix systems. Just edit it to reflect your installation of Lua. Then run make. This will build srlua and glue, and run a simple test. For each Lua program that you want to turn into a stand-alone program, do glue srlua prog.lua a.out chmod +x a.out Of course, you can use any name instead of a.out.
For Windows, you need to create srlua.exe and glue.exe first. Then for each Lua program that you want to turn into a stand-alone program, do glue srlua.exe prog.lua prog.exe Of course, you can use any name instead of prog.exe.
This code is hereby placed in the public domain. Please send comments, suggestions, and bug reports to lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br"