Installing Luarocks on Windows with MSYS2 and gcc

install_luarocks_windows_10.md

Installing Luarocks on Windows

Getting Luarocks to work on Windows 8.1/10 with MSYS2 gcc (mingw64)

1. MSYS2 installation

1. Visit https://www.msys2.org/
2. Click on the link next to "Download the installer"
3. Run the installer
4. Add "C:\msys64\usr\bin" to path
5. Add "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin" to path
6. Open cmd.exe
7. Run pacman -S pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
8. Confirm with enter key

2. Lua installation

1. Visit http://www.lua.org/
2. Click on "download"
3. Click on "get a binary"
4. Click on "download"
5. Click on lua-<version>_Win64_bin.zip e.g. lua-5.4.2_Win64_bin.zip or lua5_1_5_Win64_bin.zip (we will install 5.1.x for compatibility with love2d)
6. Create folder C:\lua
7. Extract content into C:\lua (exe files should be in C:\lua)
8. Rename lua<version>.exe into lua.exe
9. Add C:\lua to PATH
10. Create C:\lua\include and C:\lua\lib folders
11. Return to the lua download page in your browser
12. Click on "LuaBinaries <version> - Release X"
13. Navigate to "Windows Libraries\Dynamic"
14. Download "lua-<version>_Win64_dllw6.zip"
15. Copy include files into C:\lua\include
16. Copy lib files into C:\lua\lib

3. Luarocks installation

1. Visit https://luarocks.org/
2. Click on "install"
3. Click on "Windows all-in-one executable (64-bit)"
4. Download file
5. Extract exe files into C:\lua
6. Add "%appdata%\luarocks\bin" to PATH

4. Luarocks config

1. Delete old config: remove luarocks folder in %localappdata% and %appdata%
2. Open cmd.exe
3. Run luarocks config variables.LUA_INCDIR C:\lua\include
4. Run luarocks config variables.LUA_LIBDIR C:\lua\lib
5. Run luarocks config variables.CC gcc
6. Run luarocks config variables.LD gcc
7. Run luarocks -> there should be no config errors left

5. Testing

1. Try to install something with luarocks e.g. in cmd.exe run "luarocks install tl -> should compile and install tl without errors
2. Run tl