I’ve been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.
How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?
I’ve been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.
How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?
Lack of windows support for most luarocks modules has stopped me from writing a lot of stuff in lua.
@irelephant lack of support of an “operating system” that shouldnt exist at all is actually a great thing! ;)
most people are on windows, so if I make something, it should support that.
@irelephant it reminds me what my mother used to say all the time: “its not because most people are jumping into a hole that you have to as well” xD
Who are you writing package for?
backend stuff need not run on Windows at all.
I was thinking of making a simple SSG (Static Site Generator), and I wanted to make it in lua.
some other cli tools, like scraping scripts as well.
So web scraping speed is at issue? I believe Python has beautifulsoup for web scrapping.
Unless it’s for a learning experience, would recommend to not reinvent the wheel. Have been there done that too many times.
I feel like the village idiot cuz not properly learning that lesson.
No, speed isn’t the issue. Its installing packages/modules on windows with luarocks, the lua package manager. It doesn’t work half the time on windows.