keplerproject/luarocks — Issue #57: Windows issue with binary utilities
Author: rpavlik
Created: 2012-02-08 20:42:12+00:00
State: open

I get a crash in Curl when trying to use the latest luarocks-2.0.7.1 and other weird errors when trying to install.

Might I suggest upgrading the coreutils using this source: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm since it seems newer than UnxUtils? There's also a build of wget there: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

curl can be cross-compiled easily from linux using mingw-cross-env: http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/ which produces statically-linked binaries.

I've tried switching to gnuwin32 wget and coreutils - I replaced everything except find (wasn't included in coreutils) and mkdir (it seemed to break mkdir -p). My branch does install and work cleaner than the 2.0.7.1 zip file.