2025-03-21

Lua for Watcom builds from 21st of March 2025

What's new:

• Added icon and version infomation to LUANT.EXE
• Added description metadata to LUA21.EXE and LUA22.EXE
• Added DOSFREN.LUA: This script converts file line endings so that if first line has a shebang it is properly formatted for UNIX execution while maintaining readability in legacy DOS/Windows systems.
• Added DICE.LUA: A tiny script to roll dice
• Capitalise require() arguments in scripts to maximise UNIX compatibility
• Refactored all existing scripts to take no more that 3kb of disk space each. This frees more clusters in the floppy disk image builds for the end users own scripts

File contents:

• Lua Exe.zip: Zip file containing binaries for each platform and all scripts
• Lua Ima.zip: Zip files containing two floppy disk images (useful for emulators)
  • 1.44mb disk image containing binaries for each platform and all scripts
  • 160kb disk image containing just LUA16.EXE and a minimum set of scripts due to space constraints

Check binary native targets and binary compatibilty matrix to see which executable(s) can be used on your system.