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Iggyhopper
Iggyhopper

Reputation: 157

compiling lua, getting makefile CreateProcess error

I'm trying to compile Lua 1.1. Why? Because I can. Here's the makefile contents.

all:
    (cd src; make)
    (cd clients/lib; make)
    (cd clients/lua; make)

clean:
    (cd src; make clean)
    (cd clients/lib; make clean)
    (cd clients/lua; make clean)

Here's the error I get just from running make all.

(cd src; make)
process_begin: CreateProcess((null), (cd src; make), ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
make: *** [all] Error 2

Why do I get this error? I'm on WinXP-32.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 968

Answers (2)

lhf
lhf

Reputation: 72312

Get lua-all.tar.gz which contains the source of all Lua distributions with a few changes made to make them easy to compile.

Upvotes: 3

Mud
Mud

Reputation: 28991

Because I can.

Your post begs to differ. :)

That makefile is written for Linux (which uses ';' as a command separator). The Windows command interpreter will choke on that.

You're going to need to edit those makefiles, or try the following command line (I'm using Visual Studio's command line compiler, substitute your compiler if necessary):

cl clients\lua\*.c clients\lib\*.c src\*.c -I include

Upvotes: 2

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