Can I use it without installing via luarocks?

Question

Can I use it without installing via luarocks?

helloworldguy4 opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Hello can I use the library by downloading the folder but not installing it with luarocks?
I already tried putting the folder near to the lua file and doing require "luautf8" but this doesn't work.

I have much problems with luarocks. I cant install anything via luarocks.

Vadim Peretokin · Answer 1 · Sat Dec 02 2017 23:01:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ask for help on https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues

Xavier Wang · Answer 2 · Mon Jan 01 2018 19:39:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

you must compile the luautf8.c file into lua-utf8.so or dll to do the work.

rinart73 · Answer 3 · Sat Jan 13 2018 19:56:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Tried to do so, sucessfully compiled using MSVC С++ 2017.
But when I'm trying to require it in LuaJIT 2.0.5 program, I get:
Failed to run script: error loading module 'lua-utf8' from file '.\lua-utf8.dll': the specified procedure could not be found (I translated message from my language)

Can someone please give a hint? Luarocks may be a good thing, but I need to include this library into standalone application, so this is not an option.

Vadim Peretokin · Answer 4 · Sat Jan 13 2018 22:24:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Use luarocks to install, then copy the DLL to your application. That's what we do.

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On Sat, 13 Jan 2018, 12:56 pm rinart73, ***@***.***> wrote: Tried to do so, sucessfully compiled using MSVC С++ 2017. But when I'm trying to require it in LuaJIT 2.0.5 program, I get: Failed to run script: error loading module 'lua-utf8' from file '.\lua-utf8.dll': the specified procedure could not be found (I translated message from my language) Can someone please give a hint? Luarocks may be a good thing, but I need to include this library into standalone application. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#14 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAGxjDYdag77x6KZ8czP3qVnqHX7ywmjks5tKJn0gaJpZM4QzTuF> .

Xavier Wang · Answer 5 · Sun Jan 28 2018 02:42:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

or build it directly.

XiaoLi · Answer 6 · Mon Jan 10 2022 01:28:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

or build it directly.
Can't you tell me how to build directly?

Caleb Maclennan · Answer 7 · Tue Jan 11 2022 20:48:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can't you tell me how to build directly?

If you don't know how to compile C source code for the particular Lua interpreter you want to use the module with, then ... you probably shouldn't be going down that road. Use luarocks.

I cant install anything via luarocks.

I suggest this issue should be closed. Troubleshooting Luarocks or providing work arounds for other system problems shouldn't be the job of a library problem to fix.