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76eda883a5 build Lua from vendored source instead of the prebuilt lua51.lib
The tree carried two prebuilt Lua static libraries and a copy of the Lua
public headers. lua51.lib is 5.1.2 and matched the headers; lua51.vc9.lib
is 5.1.4 and was dead weight — it came second in Ja2_Libraries, so the
linker resolved every Lua symbol out of lua51.lib and never pulled an
object from it. Just as well, since it asks for /DEFAULTLIB:MSVCRT while
we build /MT.

ext/lua-5.1.5 is the upstream tarball unmodified, built as lua51 the way
the other vendored libraries are, and its src directory replaces lua/ as
the home of lua.h, luaconf.h, lauxlib.h and lualib.h. Those four headers
were stock 5.1.2 retabbed, so 5.1.5 is bugfix-only against what the game
compiled against; the bytecode format is unchanged across 5.1.x and every
script under gamedir is plain source anyway. lua/lua.hpp had no includers
and returns to etc/ where upstream keeps it.

/SAFESEH:NO goes with it. Its two stated reasons were lua51.lib and the
smackw32 import library, and both are now gone: every remaining prebuilt
static library is SAFESEH-clean (libexpatMT.lib 5 of 5 members with
@feat.00 = 0x1, RakNetLibStatic.lib 79 of 79), and lld-link emits a
3155-entry SEHandlerTable without it.

The /MT comment blamed the wrong library. lua51.lib carried no linker
directives at all; RakNetLibStatic.lib is what pins us to the static
runtime, with /DEFAULTLIB:LIBCMT and /DEFAULTLIB:libcpmt.

Verified by building all four applications in Debug and Release, and by
linking the tarball's own lua.c against our lua51.lib with the build's
clang-cl flags and running it under Wine: 5.1 stdlib, GC, coroutines and
the x86 __asm fld/fistp lua_number2int fast path all behave. The game
itself could not be launched here — this checkout's gamedir has loose
Data directories but no SLF archives, so VFS aborts on Data\Ambient.slf
long before any script runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 13:25:35 -03:00

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INSTALL for Lua 5.1
* Building Lua
------------
Lua is built in the src directory, but the build process can be
controlled from the top-level Makefile.
Building Lua on Unix systems should be very easy. First do "make" and
see if your platform is listed. If so, just do "make xxx", where xxx
is your platform name. The platforms currently supported are:
aix ansi bsd freebsd generic linux macosx mingw posix solaris
If your platform is not listed, try the closest one or posix, generic,
ansi, in this order.
See below for customization instructions and for instructions on how
to build with other Windows compilers.
If you want to check that Lua has been built correctly, do "make test"
after building Lua. Also, have a look at the example programs in test.
* Installing Lua
--------------
Once you have built Lua, you may want to install it in an official
place in your system. In this case, do "make install". The official
place and the way to install files are defined in Makefile. You must
have the right permissions to install files.
If you want to build and install Lua in one step, do "make xxx install",
where xxx is your platform name.
If you want to install Lua locally, then do "make local". This will
create directories bin, include, lib, man, and install Lua there as
follows:
bin: lua luac
include: lua.h luaconf.h lualib.h lauxlib.h lua.hpp
lib: liblua.a
man/man1: lua.1 luac.1
These are the only directories you need for development.
There are man pages for lua and luac, in both nroff and html, and a
reference manual in html in doc, some sample code in test, and some
useful stuff in etc. You don't need these directories for development.
If you want to install Lua locally, but in some other directory, do
"make install INSTALL_TOP=xxx", where xxx is your chosen directory.
See below for instructions for Windows and other systems.
* Customization
-------------
Three things can be customized by editing a file:
- Where and how to install Lua -- edit Makefile.
- How to build Lua -- edit src/Makefile.
- Lua features -- edit src/luaconf.h.
You don't actually need to edit the Makefiles because you may set the
relevant variables when invoking make.
On the other hand, if you need to select some Lua features, you'll need
to edit src/luaconf.h. The edited file will be the one installed, and
it will be used by any Lua clients that you build, to ensure consistency.
We strongly recommend that you enable dynamic loading. This is done
automatically for all platforms listed above that have this feature
(and also Windows). See src/luaconf.h and also src/Makefile.
* Building Lua on Windows and other systems
-----------------------------------------
If you're not using the usual Unix tools, then the instructions for
building Lua depend on the compiler you use. You'll need to create
projects (or whatever your compiler uses) for building the library,
the interpreter, and the compiler, as follows:
library: lapi.c lcode.c ldebug.c ldo.c ldump.c lfunc.c lgc.c llex.c
lmem.c lobject.c lopcodes.c lparser.c lstate.c lstring.c
ltable.c ltm.c lundump.c lvm.c lzio.c
lauxlib.c lbaselib.c ldblib.c liolib.c lmathlib.c loslib.c
ltablib.c lstrlib.c loadlib.c linit.c
interpreter: library, lua.c
compiler: library, luac.c print.c
If you use Visual Studio .NET, you can use etc/luavs.bat in its
"Command Prompt".
If all you want is to build the Lua interpreter, you may put all .c files
in a single project, except for luac.c and print.c. Or just use etc/all.c.
To use Lua as a library in your own programs, you'll need to know how to
create and use libraries with your compiler.
As mentioned above, you may edit luaconf.h to select some features before
building Lua.
(end of INSTALL)