Installing moonscript via luarocks on Windows
lpeg, lua, luarocks, moonscript
Solution
From MSDN:
cl.exe is a tool that controls the Microsoft C and C++ compilers and linker. cl.exe can be run only on operating systems that support Microsoft Visual Studio.
You should run `luarocks install` inside the Visual Studio Command Prompt.
I tried to install moonscript without Visual Studio and found that moonscript does not have a binary distribution.
Anyway, I found the binary package for each of moonscript's dependencies, the installation procedure is the follwing:
luarocks install lpeg 0.10-1 # this is the one that failed first
luarocks install luafilesystem 1.6.0-1 # this one failed after installing lpeg
But the following:
luarocks install moonscript
Can only be done within the Visual Studio Command Prompt unless you manually download a binary package.
Problem
When I try to install moonscript through luarocks, the process errors out in installing the dependencies for moonscript, saying that "cl" isn't an installed / recognized program. ``` C:\Users\Kingdaro>luarocks install moonscript Installing http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/moonscript-0.2.4-1.src.rock... Missing dependencies for moonscript: lpeg >= 0.10, ~= 0.11 alt-getopt >= 0.7 7-Zip 9.10 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-12-22 Processing archive: lpeg-0.12.tar.gz Extracting lpeg-0.12.tar Everything is Ok Size: 245760 Compressed: 66649 7-Zip 9.10 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-12-22 Processing archive: lpeg-0.12.tar Extracting lpeg-0.12 Extracting lpeg-0.12\makefile Extracting lpeg-0.12\HISTORY Extracting lpeg-0.12\test.lua Extracting lpeg-0.12\re.lua Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpeg.html Extracting lpeg-0.12\re.html Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpeg-128.gif Extracting lpeg-0.12\lptypes.h Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpcap.h Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpcap.c Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpcode.h Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpcode.c Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpprint.h Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpprint.c Extracting lpeg-0.12\lptree.h Extracting lpeg-0.12\lptree.c Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpvm.h Extracting lpeg-0.12\lpvm.c Everything is Ok Folders: 1 Files: 18 Size: 220385 Compressed: 245760 cl /MD /O2 -c -Folpcap.obj -IC:/Program Files (x86)/Lua/5.1/include lpcap.c 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Error: Failed installing dependency: http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/lpeg -0.12-1.src.rock - Build error: Failed compiling object lpcap.obj ``` I'm not sure what to do here; I've been googling a solution for the past couple of days but couldn't find anything relevant. If it helps, I'm using the Lua 5.1.4 installation provided by Lua for Windows.