Lua for Windows
(ver 5.1.4-46)
Abandoned Freeware


Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting 
language used by many commercial applications.  Lua combines 
simple procedural syntax with powerful data description 
constructs based on associative arrays and extensible 
semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting 
bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has 
automatic memory management with incremental garbage 
collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, 
and rapid prototyping. Lua has a deserved reputation for 
performance. To claim to be "as fast as Lua" is an aspiration 
of other scripting languages. Several benchmarks show Lua 
as the fastest language in the realm of interpreted scripting 
languages. Lua is fast not only in fine-tuned benchmark 
programs, but in real life too. A substantial fraction of 
large applications have been written in Lua. 

Lua for Windows (LfW) combines Lua binaries, Lua libraries 
with a Lua-capable editor in a single install package for 
the Microsoft Windows operating system. LfW contains 
everything you need to write, run and debug Lua scripts on 
Windows. A wide variety of libraries and examples are 
included that are ready to use with Microsoft Windows. LfW 
runs on Windows 2000 and newer versions of Windows. Lua and 
its associated libraries are also available for other 
operating systems, so most scripts will be automatically 
cross-platform.  


Install Notes

Lua for Windows installs Lua language, SciTE based Lua IDE 
and Lua modules to the directory of you choice at install 
time. Lua for Windows and it's modules all depend on the 
MSVC++ 2005 runtime library. Lua for Windows install will 
automatically download this runtime and install it for you 
if you don't have runtime installed on your computer. The 
runtime is contained in the file vcredist_x86.exe, if you 
don't want this download to occur at installation then place 
the vcredist_86.exe in same directory as Lua for Windows 
install exe.


LfW Components

Installer Lua Interpreter, Lua Reference Manual, Quick Lua 
Tour Sample, Examples directory, Libraries with documentation. 
Lua Compiler (luac) Text Editors (SciTE and I think maybe 
wxLua editors too) C header files/libraries/etc. for building 
C module.