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Asked: 2026-05-18T22:56:49+00:00

I’m trying to compile Lua 1.1. Why? Because I can. Here’s the makefile contents.

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I’m trying to compile Lua 1.1. Why? Because I can. Here’s the makefile contents.

all:
    (cd src; make)
    (cd clients/lib; make)
    (cd clients/lua; make)

clean:
    (cd src; make clean)
    (cd clients/lib; make clean)
    (cd clients/lua; make clean)

Here’s the error I get just from running make all.

(cd src; make)
process_begin: CreateProcess((null), (cd src; make), ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
make: *** [all] Error 2

Why do I get this error? I’m on WinXP-32.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Because I can.

    Your post begs to differ. 🙂

    That makefile is written for Linux (which uses ‘;’ as a command separator). The Windows command interpreter will choke on that.

    You’re going to need to edit those makefiles, or try the following command line (I’m using Visual Studio’s command line compiler, substitute your compiler if necessary):

    cl clients\lua\*.c clients\lib\*.c src\*.c -I include
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