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Installing Lua (and wlua!) + Luarocks on native Windows (not WSL)

This guide will go through the FULL process of installing Lua + MinGW + Luarocks on native Windows. This guide is for those who want to use Lua on Windows without WSL and want everything to work well. By the way, it would be greatly appreciated if anyone wants to make a script that does all of this.

Windows versions

I am only targeting Windows 10/11 in this tutorial, specifically ucrt. If you are using Windows 10/11, ignore this. If you use a different version, you will probably be using msvcrt, so you can skip the steps where I switch Luarocks to ucrt.

Step 1: MinGW

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Install

wine regedit wine-breeze-dark.reg

Uninstall (Reset Wine color scheme)

wine regedit wine-reset-theme.reg

	#!/bin/bash

	export WSLKERNEL=`uname -a \| cut -d " " -f3 \| cut -d "-" -f1`
	export CHECKOUT_DIR=`linux-msft-wsl-$WSLKERNEL`

	git clone https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel.git --depth=1 -b $CHECKOUT_DIR
	cd $WSLKERNEL
	sudo make -j$(nproc) KCONFIG_CONFIG=Microsoft/config-wsl CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m CONFIG_USB_UAS=m
	sudo make -j$(nproc) KCONFIG_CONFIG=Microsoft/config-wsl CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m CONFIG_USB_UAS=m modules
	sudo make -j$(nproc) KCONFIG_CONFIG=Microsoft/config-wsl CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m CONFIG_USB_UAS=m modules_install

	[DllImport("user32.dll")]
	internal static extern int SetWindowCompositionAttribute(IntPtr hwnd, ref WindowCompositionAttributeData data);

	[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
	internal struct WindowCompositionAttributeData
	{
	public WindowCompositionAttribute Attribute;
	public IntPtr Data;
	public int SizeOfData;
	}