About Alien 0.7

[jhernancanom]

Good morning, Fabio. I am trying to use Alien 0.7 but I have several difficulties:

1. There is no any DDL . I see that there is alien_c.dll with Alien 0.6, and core.dll and struct.dll in v0.4, but I can not find any for 0.7. Must I compile/build Alien? If so, please gimme instructions.
2. Is Alien 0.7 stable or not? If v0.7 is not stable yet, then just say me and I'll use v0.6 or the stable you say me.
3. I found an article that uses v0.4: alien.lua, core.dll and struct.dll. I use a DLL and one (or may be two) functions from Windows API and they (all three) runs well. But for v0.6 I need changes (another Lua programmer --TheDary-- helps me).
4. I can not use Alien 0.6 not v0.4 with Lua 5.2 nor Lua 5.3 (Windows exception when just "require alien"). What do I need?

If you need more details, I can give'em.

Thanks friend.

HERNAN CANO M Systems Analyst

[jhernancanom]

Hi, friends. In ALIEN.MD in DOC dir of sources, we can read:

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For a quick start, if you checked out sources from Github (skip this step if you downloaded the .zip in the Downloads section):

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Where is the Downloads section and the .ZIP?

Thanks.

HERNAN

[moteus]

Github remove this section a while ago and no one update info there. So do not try find it. But It still there if you know how to find it Better just use release download or master download. But no one have any binaries. Also I have some ptoblem on Windows. see #49 #50 #51 #53

[jhernancanom]

Well.

But no one have any binaries.

No problem if there are instructions for compile/build it.

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I have downloaded FFI sources from http://sourceware.org/libffi/, but there is no lib.ffi, that I see in your URL when compiling it.

2016-09-05 2:28 GMT-05:00 Alexey Melnichuk:

Github remove this section a while ago and no one update info there. So do not try find it. But It still there if you know how to find it https://github.com/mascarenhas/alien/downloads Better just use release download or master download. But no one have any binaries. Also I have some ptoblem on Windows. see #49 https://github.com/mascarenhas/alien/pull/49 #50 https://github.com/mascarenhas/alien/pull/50 #51 https://github.com/mascarenhas/alien/pull/51 #53 https://github.com/mascarenhas/alien/issues/53

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[moteus]

If you can link alien with msvcr10.dll you can use ffi.lib from https://github.com/moteus/luarocks-external I have problem with build libffi>=3.2.1. So i use 3.1 Also may be you can try my fork with some fixes for windows. It has rockspec file

[jhernancanom]

Oh, friend. Fine.

One note. I have to use some patched rockspecs/sources files because they has some problems on Windows. I put this files in rockspecs directory. ... try my fork with some fixes for windows. It has rockspec file.

Hmmm... I want to learn... to help others to use the Lua language... but avoiding LuaRocks. If lsqlite and alien is in the list of 'problematic rockspecs'.... I consider I can live (I have survived) without Alien... but without lsqlite3... not sure....

Thanks, friend. I'll go on with this info from you.

By.

2016-09-05 13:55 GMT-05:00 Alexey Melnichuk:

If you can link alien with msvcr10.dll you can use ffi.lib from https://github.com/moteus/luarocks-external I have problem with build libffi>=3.2.1. So i use 3.1 Also may be you can try my fork with some fixes for windows. It has rockspec file

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