Compile Lua 5.3 Mingw64 MSys2

Question

I have installed mingw64 and MSYS2 from the official site (http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php) following the instructions. Added bin folders to win7 PATH var. Everything seems to work. I run this command from MSYS2:

gcc --version

and it works.

Now I´m trying to install Lua 5.3 (lua-5.3.1.tar.gz from lua.org). I decompressed the file using WinRAR. From MSYS2, I go to my Lua directory

cd /e/Programming/Libs/lua-5.3.1/

then I run the make command

mingw32-make mingw

But it doesn´t work. I got this message...

cd src && E:/Programming/mingw64/mingw64/bin/mingw32-make mingw
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory 'E:/Programming/Libs/lua-5.3.1/src'
E:/Programming/mingw64/mingw64/bin/mingw32-make "LUA_A=lua53.dll" "LUA_T=lua.exe" \
"AR=gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o" "RANLIB=strip --strip-unneeded" \
"SYSCFLAGS=-DLUA_BUILD_AS_DLL" "SYSLIBS=" "SYSLDFLAGS=-s" lua.exe
E:\Programming\mingw64\mingw64\bin\mingw32-make: invalid option -- =
E:\Programming\mingw64\mingw64\bin\mingw32-make: invalid option -- g
E:\Programming\mingw64\mingw64\bin\mingw32-make: invalid option -- u
E:\Programming\mingw64\mingw64\bin\mingw32-make: invalid option -- 9
E:\Programming\mingw64\mingw64\bin\mingw32-make: invalid option -- 9
E:\Programming\mingw64\mingw64\bin\mingw32-make: invalid option -- a
E:\Programming\mingw64\mingw64\bin\mingw32-make: unrecognized option '--strip-unneeded SYSCFLAGS=-DLUA_BUILD_AS_DLL SYSLIBS= SYSLDFLAGS=-s lua.exe'
Usage: mingw32-make [options] [target] ...

This program built for x86_64-w64-mingw32
Report bugs to <[email protected]>
makefile:116: recipe for target 'mingw' failed
mingw32-make[1]: *** [mingw] Error 2
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory 'E:/Programming/Libs/lua-5.3.1/src'
makefile:55: recipe for target 'mingw' failed
mingw32-make: *** [mingw] Error 2

I dont want to download Lua binaries, I want to compile it myself

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

I was having the same issue. I looked at this page:

http://www.thijsschreijer.nl/blog/?p=863

What I saw was that I did not have c:\mingw\msys\1.0\bin in my path variable. I added it just after the MinGW\bin path and it worked fine then.