Hisham Muhammad

@WeebNetsu Yes, that's the way to do it :)

I seem to have hit a similar error using mingw-w64 to cross-compile a Windows binary from a Linux host. My solution was to download the rockspec locally and revert #383...

> LuaRocks currently (as of 3.9.1) does not support different platform entries for mingw32 and mingw64... Apparently this is not enough, because mingw32-w64 also has a i686 target ("the 32-bit...

@martinwguy Would this change once all MP3 patents expire? [This link](https://madfileformatscience.garymcgath.com/2016/04/05/mp3patent/) says it's by the end of the year, but it also mentions there might be unknown patents. It will...

Thank you for the clarifications! > In short, I have only faux-5.3 in mind - new operators and metamethods. Sounds reasonable... but adding the bitwise operators with Lua-5.2-style numbers would...

Great points raised here all around, and if the behavior was the opposite the discussion could easily go the other way around ("bug: preserve_host is not respected when setting host_header")....

This is odd because it should be getting those defines from your `lua.h` settings. Does this rockspec work? You can save this file as `compat53-0.12-1.rockspec` and run `luarocks build compat53-0.12-1.rockspec`....

Unfortunately I don't have a Windows system to test this on, so any help debugging this is much appreciated!

> the latest (like latest commit) of luarocks because it seems to be the only one that works well on windows That is encouraging to hear :) I am planning...

> Should I have a luaconf.h there? Yes, Lua installations include `luaconf.h` (e.g. the Ubuntu package installs `/usr/include/lua5.4/luaconf.h`). > C:\Program Files\Lua\5.4\include/luaconf.h:51:9: warning: 'LUA_USE_WINDOWS' macro redefined Ok, so that means that...