Yay, LuaRocks on Windows is working for me in MCServer. I have successfully used the LuaSocket rock from within a MCServer script.
However, I cannot compile the rocks myself, that seems to produce invalid DLLs. Pity.
So, to sum up:
- we can use LuaRocks on Linux *if* we change the makefile to produce a dynamic executable ("-rdynamic" flag to link step). That linker flag may have other side effects, currently unknown. LuaRocks can be compiled and installed locally without any issue.
- we can use LuaRocks on Windows after some file-shuffling - the LuaRocks' lua DLLs need to be copied to MCServer's folder and the individual rocks' DLLs and lua files, too. We might avoid the need for the first one by compiling the Lua DLL for ourselves from the sources we have, it'd also be a cleaner solution. Still, the rocks have to be copied, because LuaRocks tries to use cygwin paths on all windows, even without cygwin installed. Also, I personally am unable to compile individual rocks.
Another windows update: When MCServer uses Lua as a DLL and LuaRocks is set up properly, including the environment variables, there's no need to copy any files, everything works out of the box, same as on Linux.
However, I cannot compile the rocks myself, that seems to produce invalid DLLs. Pity.
So, to sum up:
- we can use LuaRocks on Linux *if* we change the makefile to produce a dynamic executable ("-rdynamic" flag to link step). That linker flag may have other side effects, currently unknown. LuaRocks can be compiled and installed locally without any issue.
- we can use LuaRocks on Windows after some file-shuffling - the LuaRocks' lua DLLs need to be copied to MCServer's folder and the individual rocks' DLLs and lua files, too. We might avoid the need for the first one by compiling the Lua DLL for ourselves from the sources we have, it'd also be a cleaner solution. Still, the rocks have to be copied, because LuaRocks tries to use cygwin paths on all windows, even without cygwin installed. Also, I personally am unable to compile individual rocks.
Another windows update: When MCServer uses Lua as a DLL and LuaRocks is set up properly, including the environment variables, there's no need to copy any files, everything works out of the box, same as on Linux.