• Mars (13/16) Feb 15 2012 Hello, everybody.
• Andrej Mitrovic (2/2) Feb 15 2012 Have you tried https://github.com/JakobOvrum/LuaD ? It has binaries
• Mars (4/7) Feb 15 2012 LuaD works fine, but I'd rather learn to compile stuff like this
• Trass3r (2/4) Feb 15 2012 Try to switch to gdc.
• Mars (4/8) Feb 15 2012 I guess GDC uses COFF? That would definitely be handy... although
• Trass3r (1/4) Feb 15 2012 Just recently Rainer added gdc support to cv2pdb.
• Mars (12/14) Feb 15 2012 I guess I did it. Using lib, I was able to bind those obj files
• Jesse Phillips (19/25) Feb 15 2012 Importing just tells the compiler　that you wish to use the
• Mars (6/7) Feb 16 2012 Thank you for the explanation.

"Mars" <- -.-> writes:

Hello, everybody.

Originally I've posted this in the C++ section, but seeing how 
the posts there are almost ancient, I'll post it here as well, 
where probably more people will see it.

I'm trying to compile Lua, using DMC, to use it in D. I got the 
compilation working, but I have no clue, on how to turn the .obj 
files into a .lib. In D I'd use the -lib argument, but I couldn't 
figure out how to do this with DMC/OPTLINK yet. If I just do
 dmc src\lapi.c src\lauxlib.c [...] -olua5.1.lib

I get
 OPTLINK : Warning 134: No Start Address

and when trying to use this .lib
 Not a Valid Library File

from DMD.

What's the correct way to do this?

Mars

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

Have you tried https://github.com/JakobOvrum/LuaD ? It has binaries
here: http://github.com/JakobOvrum/LuaD/tree/binaries

"Mars" <- -.-> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 16:35:01 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
wrote:
 Have you tried https://github.com/JakobOvrum/LuaD ? It has 
 binaries
 here: http://github.com/JakobOvrum/LuaD/tree/binaries

LuaD works fine, but I'd rather learn to compile stuff like this 
myself. It will get me further in the long run^^

Trass3r <un known.com> writes:

 LuaD works fine, but I'd rather learn to compile stuff like this myself.  
 It will get me further in the long run^^

Try to switch to gdc.
dmc, optlink & Co. must die a bloody death anyway :)

"Mars" <- -.-> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 19:44:41 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
 LuaD works fine, but I'd rather learn to compile stuff like 
 this myself. It will get me further in the long run^^

 Try to switch to gdc.
 dmc, optlink & Co. must die a bloody death anyway :)

I guess GDC uses COFF? That would definitely be handy... although 
I couldn't compile and debug from VS anymore in that case, and 
that would be unfortunate^^"

Trass3r <un known.com> writes:

 I guess GDC uses COFF? That would definitely be handy... although I  
 couldn't compile and debug from VS anymore in that case, and that would  
 be unfortunate^^"

Just recently Rainer added gdc support to cv2pdb.

"Mars" <- -.-> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 15:02:36 UTC, Mars wrote:
 What's the correct way to do this?

I guess I did it. Using lib, I was able to bind those obj files 
to a lib file.
 lib -c obj_files...

I really have to learn a bit more about this stuff... to 
successfully compile a program with this lib, I have to make 
another one, using LuaD's "C" header files, so all symbols are 
found. I assume I could compile those, and include them in my 
other lib... but why is that? Shouldn't the Lua lib, and the 
importing of those files be enough? I couldn't really wrap my 
head around that yet, if I import something, that's not in my 
project, aren't those files included? Is that why I also have to 
make a lib for it? What exactly happens when importing?

"Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillips+D gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 19:49:13 UTC, Mars wrote:
 I assume I could compile those, and include them in my other 
 lib... but why is that? Shouldn't the Lua lib, and the 
 importing of those files be enough? I couldn't really wrap my 
 head around that yet, if I import something, that's not in my 
 project, aren't those files included? Is that why I also have 
 to make a lib for it? What exactly happens when importing?

Importing just tells the compiler　that you wish to use the 
symbols for the imported module. This is different from C`s 
include as that is just a text replacement.

Importing does not make those modules compiled into you obj file. 
Each module is given there own object file and generally this is 
how you`ll build each C file. These obj files can then be 
packaged in a lib.

There is however a difference between the compile and link stage. 
During compilation the important part is to know what is 
contained in an obj/lib. This is why we import/include, the 
signature of the external code tells the compiler the calling 
convention being used. The linker on the other hand does not care 
about the imports and is only putting the used code together 
(linking).

So when building an application against Lua it must provide the 
header files such that the compiler knows what will be found in 
the library/external code.

BTW, I totally recommend LuaD when interacting with lua.

"Mars" <- -.-> writes:

On Thursday, 16 February 2012 at 05:06:13 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
wrote:
 BTW, I totally recommend LuaD when interacting with lua.

Thank you for the explanation.
I've started with LuaD, but I kinda didn't like it, can't exactly 
say why. I rather want to use Lua directly for now, and maybe 
write my own wrapper later.