link error

[lunarmodules]

link error

[soapdog]

This is still happening on Windows 10 with Lua 5.2.

c:\Users\soapdog\prog\lua\luarocks-2.4.0-win32>luarocks install luafilesystem
Installing https://luarocks.org/luafilesystem-1.6.3-2.src.rock
cl /nologo /MD /O2 -c -Fosrc/lfs.obj -IC:/lua/include src/lfs.c
lfs.c
link -dll -def:lfs.def -out:lfs.dll C:/lua/lua52.dll src/lfs.obj
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.00.24215.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\lua\lua52.dll : fatal error LNK1107: invalid or corrupt file: cannot read at 0x330

Error: Build error: Failed compiling module lfs.dll

[hoensr]

I have the same issue. Here is what I get when I want to install the rock:

Using luafilesystem-1.6.2-2.src.rock... switching to 'build' mode
cl /MD /O2 -c -Fosrc/lfs.obj -Ic:/lua/include/ src/lfs.c
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.40219.01 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

lfs.c
c:\users\hoensr\appdata\local\temp\luarocks_luafilesystem-1.6.2-2-9080\luafilesystem-1.6.2\src\lfs.c(413) : warning C4716: 'make_link' : must return a value
link -dll -def:lfs.def -out:lfs.dll c:/lua/lua51.dll src/lfs.obj
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 10.00.40219.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

c:\lua\lua51.dll : fatal error LNK1107: invalid or corrupt file: cannot read at 0x270

I tried to link against Lua 5.1.5, lua51.dll is 11KB.
Luarocks is version 2.1.2.

Any ideas?

[hishamhm]

According to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/81c26278-3965-4567-8b1a-bb9e98b5f53a/fatal-error-lnk1107-invalid-or-corrupt-file-cannot-read-at-0x168?forum=vcgeneral

This indicates that a file you passed into the linker is not a binary file. Check your linker command line and make sure the files being passed are recognised by the linker. You can find a list of recognised file types here.

Following that link, the list of recognized file types is:

.obj files
.netmodule files
.lib files
.exp files
.def files
.pdb files
.res files
.exe files
.txt files
.ilk files

The command-line above says:

link -dll -def:lfs.def -out:lfs.dll c:/lua/lua51.dll src/lfs.obj

So perhaps there should be a .lib file there instead of .dll? Check you LuaRocks configuration.

[SergNikitin]

Got the exact same issue, switching to lua5.1.lib in LuaRocks config fixed the problem.

It is worth noting that looks like for some reason LuaRocks install script searches for lua51.dll (without extra dot) and for lua5.1.lib (with extra dot). So if you want to make this process automated, you need to remember that if you wish to make the installation of LuaRocks fully automated.

[bonez001]

where can I find lua5.3.lib?

[hishamhm]

@soapdog Do you have c:\lua\lua52.lib in your system?

Try editing your LuaRocks config file and change the value of LUALIB to point to the lua52.lib file.

LuaRocks will tell the location of your config file if you type luarocks with no arguments.

[soapdog]

@hishamhm I don't have it. I have lua52.dll and liblua52.a. My lua prebuilt binaries came from luabinaries project. They are not shipping lua52.lib on their windows download. Should the lib point to a DLL on windows? Also, thanks for the quick reply, I moved this to #82 because this issue is closed here.