First execution
Luart has two version of its interpreter, luart.exe
for console applications and wluart.exe
for desktop applications.
To be sure that everything went right during the installation process, let's run Luart for the first time.
Console application
- Open a console prompt (cmd.exe or Windows Terminal for example)
- Change your current directory to the folder where Luart is installed
- Type the command
luart examples\net\humans.lua
- The console should display the contents of the humans.txt file downloaded from the Google web server
Desktop application
- Keep the console prompt open
- Type the command
wluart examples\ui\notepad.wlua
- You should see a desktop application called "Notepad"
- Lua scripts can be executed directly using the Winows file explorer, by double-clicking on it
- During installation, file extensions
*.lua
and *.wlua
are associated with luart.exe
and wluart.exe
interpreters respectively
- The
\bin
subdirectory is added to the system PATH at installation time
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