Switch build system to XMake?

[dargueta]

Right now I can't install this via LuaRocks because Meson isn't installed on our systems. Furthermore, adding cffi-lua as a dependency makes Meson a transitive dependency for building my library.

I was wondering if it'd be possible to switch over to using xmake as the build system? It'll provide a number of advantages:

• There's a LuaRocks plugin you can add as a build-time dependency that'll automatically install it if it's not available. This means that users don't need to install XMake themselves.
• XMake's configuration is literally just plain Lua.
• You can use XMake's package management to install libffi if it's not installed already.
• XMake is cross-platform.

This means that all users need to install cffi-lua is some version of Lua, an appropriate C++ compiler, and either XMake or LuaRocks depending on how they're installing it.

[q66]

i don't have any plans to switch build systems, sorry; i generally don't use luarocks either, it's provided pretty much as a supplementary thing, the primary way is to just use meson

meson is also portable/cross-platform, there shouldn't be any reason you can't install it