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Built against MSVC2005 only #39

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Would it be possible to provide a MSVC2008 version in future? Being built 
against 2005 SP1 introduces an extra dependency to our project.

Thanks for the great work

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sipick...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 1:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
We would love too, but...

The teams goals were to acquire pre-built libraries only. We have stuck to this 
except for 2-3 clibs. So we do not maintain the building process.

Saying this, we have plans to get all the current modules in a distribution 
application like LuaDist or LuaRocks. This way we just build all the modules 
using the same system for all. Once this task is complete (by other developers. 
Unfortunately we don't have enough resources to devote to that effort) we are 
planning to release based on GCC for Windows and not even mess with the crappy 
MSVC CRT anymore.

But this change alone will allow anyone to re-build the entire package in 
whatever compiler LuaDist or LuaRocks supports.

Hope this explains our position better.

Original comment by rpusz...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 7:28