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Installing Lua (and wlua!) + Luarocks on native Windows (not WSL)

This guide will go through the FULL process of installing Lua + MinGW + Luarocks on native Windows. This guide is for those who want to use Lua on Windows without WSL and want everything to work well. By the way, it would be greatly appreciated if anyone wants to make a script that does all of this.

Windows versions

I am only targeting Windows 10/11 in this tutorial, specifically ucrt. If you are using Windows 10/11, ignore this. If you use a different version, you will probably be using msvcrt, so you can skip the steps where I switch Luarocks to ucrt.

	-- Constants for chunk size
	local arg = {...}
	---@param called string
	---@return (string \| integer)?
	local function get_arg(called)
	local tofind = "--"..called

	for i, v in ipairs(arg) do
	if v == tofind then
	local val = arg[i+1]

	local socket = require("socket")
	local xml_gen = require("x-gen")
	local xml = xml_gen.xml
	---@param document XML.Node
	local function build_response(document)
	local str = "<!DOCTYPE html>"..tostring(document)
	return ([[
	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
	Content-Type: text/html
	Content-Length: %d

	#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 700
	#include <signal.h>
	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <stddef.h>
	#include <string.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <assert.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <stdbool.h>


	#import <ObjFW/ObjFW.h>

	OF_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN

	#define $_concat(a, b) a##b
	#define $concat(...) $_concat(__VA_ARGS__)

	#if !defined($carray_name)
	# define $carray_name(T) $concat(T, Array)

	// tic tac toe in F#
	open System

	module TicTacToe =
	type Player = X \| O
	type Cell = Empty \| Checked of Player
	type Board = Cell list list

	let cellToString cell =
	match cell with

	local ffi = require("ffi")

	---@type string
	local brew_prefix do
	local f = assert(io.popen("brew --prefix libgccjit", "r"))
	brew_prefix = f:read("*a"):sub(1, -2)
	f:close()
	end

	local libgccjit = ffi.load(jit.os == "OSX" and string.format("%s/lib/gcc/current/libgccjit.dylib", brew_prefix) or "libgccjit")

	#import <ObjFW/ObjFW.h>


	#define auto __auto_type

	@interface AsyncDownloadRequest : OFObject<OFHTTPClientDelegate>

	@property(readonly) OFFile *file;

	+ (instancetype)requestWithFile: (OFFile *)file;

	#include "ObjFW.h"

	#define class @interface
	#define extends :
	#define end @end

	#define public @public
	#define private @private

	#define declare

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Installing Lua (and wlua!) + Luarocks on native Windows (not WSL)

Windows versions

Step 1: MinGW