require("luars232") results in Invalid access to memory location.

[jayachar88]

Have LuaDist installed installed on Windows 7 64-bit (professional edition), on a Intel Core i5 laptop.

Here's the simple test that shows the error -

C:\Users\jay>lua
Lua 5.1.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

local luars232 = require("luars232")
error loading module 'luars232' from file 'C:\Binaries-LuaDist-batteries-0.9.8-W
indows-x86\lib\lua\luars232.dll':
Invalid access to memory location.

stack traceback:
[C]: ?
[C]: in function 'require'
stdin:1: in main chunk
[C]: ?

[drahosp]

Thank you for reporting the issue. I have updated the binary of librs232-1.0.3. Please use luadist from the commandline to update your distribution as follows

cd [path to luadist]\bin
luadist remove librs232
luadist install librs232

[jayachar88]

While attempting the "luadist remove librs232", I get an error popup. Here's the URL to the error popup screenshot -- http://imgur.com/lCEI4Iq

[drahosp]

Can you please provide more information on the nature of the error. LuaDist itself does not display any popup windows so my suspicion is that this may be your antivirus/firewall.

[jayachar88]

Problem solved, and also verified that the updated luars232 library no
longer gives the memory violation error while the DLL is being loaded.

To allow Zerobrane Studio IDE to work with LuaDist on Windows, I had to
define the LUA_DEV, LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH. However this was probably
rendering "dist" library itself unloadable and thus the error.

[drahosp]

Excellent, also note there is (an older) version of ZBS preset in the package already that needs no LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH settings.

[jayachar88]

Thanks. I noticed that. Any plans of updating the repos with latest ZBS?
Significant progress have been made on it by Paul.

On Oct 22, 2013 4:14 AM, "Peter Drahoš" notifications@github.com wrote:

Excellent, also note there is (an older) version of ZBS preset in the
package already that needs no LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH settings.

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[drahosp]

Actually @pkulchenko is working on ZBS and LuaDist integration. He seems to have solved most of the issues, hopefully we may have a new LuaDist release and ZBS integration ready before the Lua workshop.