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Title: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 25, 2012, 05:43:30 PM

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I am proud to present to you the Bully LUA Compiler that Red and I have been keeping under tight wraps for a long time. Now it is being released to the community for use in compiling custom Bully scripits.

This compiler is basicly a custom compiler that works for the custom version of LUA that Bully uses and is the only one that will work for the game. The standard LUA compiler will not work unless you have a compiler binary that is the exact same version as the LUA version used for bully which is LUA 5.0.2 for which no downloadable windows binaries exist for that compiler.

I included a ReadMe file in the archive along with the web installer of the visual studio 2008 runtimes that are needed to run this compiler since the compiler was compiled with the debug flag attached to it and as such will not run unless you either have a version of visual studio 2008 installed that provides the proper .dll files needed....or you install the proper version of the visual studio 2008 runtime. Failure to do either properly will give you a side-by-side error which will frusterate most people.

I recieved a copy of this compiler from my silent modding partner Fred Tetra (Starwars KOTOR modder) and have kept the compiler just between Red and myself due to how big this is...and because I have been slowly rewriting the incompletely decompiled LUA scripts that are used in BULLY. I will be providing a bare handful of working rewritten script sources to start everyone off with to see how things go...and will release more a bit later once people start familierizing themselves with LUA scripting.

I also am releasing my First issue of the Bully Modding Magazine which is a companion to this because it focuses pretty heavily on LUA modding to give modders a idea what LUA scripting is all about for Bully.

The script sources will be posted in the scripting section and I must ask everyone that posts there to keep the topics to help or questions or whatever to LUA scripting and nothing else...also any requests...etc need to go to the proper forum as usual to keep things here nicely organized.


Download the fixed version here - This version should have every bug fixed and should work proper now. Please redownload the package from this link.
http://www.bully-board.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=60 (http://www.bully-board.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=60)

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: JmTsHaW on December 25, 2012, 05:45:10 PM

Yay!

Time to see what new mods everyone can do with this now ;)

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: sabateur12 on December 25, 2012, 06:13:10 PM

i dont know how this work what sould i od whit the cmd run stuff idk its to hard for me srry

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: sabateur12 on December 25, 2012, 06:18:48 PM

ooooww no now i get it:P its to hard for me this stuff i think it was how to play as max aswell but this is something else srry man i'll wait a while ill try to get max working to :) marry xmas yalll:)

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: deadpoolXYZ on December 26, 2012, 07:14:01 AM

I can't believe no one replied about this yet. Great work Madman!  ;D

It's a shame my internet didn't work yesterday.

EDIT: I have visual studio 2010. Does it still work?

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 26, 2012, 12:17:02 PM

It should since visual studio 2008 - 2010 and on will all have the proper dll files. For non visual studio users you need the proper runtime versions for it to work.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: JmTsHaW on December 26, 2012, 03:45:21 PM

I need some help getting this to run.

I installed the visual studio 2008 provided, but it still gives me the side-by-side error.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 26, 2012, 04:16:39 PM

What was provided was only the standard runtime .dll files installer and not the entire visual studio.

To fix the side by side error you most likely got when trying to run the compiler...you will need to either install ALL of the available visual studio runtime versions that is on microsofts site....or....download and install the trial verison of visual studio 2008 and that error will go away.

This error is one I was unable to fully track down the proper dll files for since if I was able...I would have gotten a special package of those files put together to also use with the compiler.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: JmTsHaW on December 26, 2012, 06:39:53 PM

I just sat through installing visual studio 2010 professional's trial version and it still gives the error :(

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: WhenLifeGivesYouLemons on December 26, 2012, 07:10:05 PM

the professional edition? it's like 3.3 GB!  :o

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 26, 2012, 07:10:23 PM

You need 2008 not 2010 on visual studio to get rid of the error that way.

Sit tight tho since I am working on a quick fix to this problem and should have a new download ready for everyone shortly.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 26, 2012, 07:31:46 PM

Updated my release post.

Posted a link at the bottom for a fixed version of my lua compiler package. Download this instead of the other one and let me know if it works or not.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: JmTsHaW on December 26, 2012, 07:42:02 PM

It gave me the same error, unfortunately.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 26, 2012, 08:05:29 PM

Try just copying the extra .dll file to the same folder where luac.exe is. See if that works

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: JmTsHaW on December 26, 2012, 08:12:59 PM

It still gives the same old error.

Is there a way I can get a log of the file to see what .dll is missing, if any?

EDIT: I installed 'vcsetup.exe' of visual studio 2008 express and it doesn't give me the error now - It just opens and closes itself instantly.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 26, 2012, 11:53:18 PM

ok..

if it opens and closes instantly and gives no error then that means the compiler is usable now.

Remember...the compiler is command line only so you cannot run it the same way as a normal windows app. It needs to be run like luac -o ArcRace1.lur scriptname.lua

Doing that will compile scriptname.lua to ArcRace1.lur
or luac -o test.lur test.lua

and so on.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: UltimateGamer1 on December 27, 2012, 12:00:56 AM

I am getting the side by side error lol.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: deadpoolXYZ on December 27, 2012, 07:21:57 AM

Im installing the vcsetup.exe thing like JmTsHaW did to see if it fixes the problem.

EDIT: Yeah, the problem was fixed! ^_^

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 27, 2012, 01:45:57 PM

I will remove the current version of the compiler download and post a fixed download with the vcsetup.exe included so that it will help with getting it working for everyone.

Seems like the problem was finally figured out and I appreciate that. Will make my life a little bit easier in helping people with using the compiler...etc.


I am also releasing later today a special img file tool that I created a while back that will allow flawless building of brand new .img archives including a brand new world.img from the extracted contents of a original world.img if you decide to mod that file with modded content. The tool is the only one of its kind that I know of that allows complete building of a new world.img since that file has too many files for all of the current tools to parse properly.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: MadmaN on December 27, 2012, 02:24:07 PM

Download updated with the proper fixed archive.

Please redownload it if you haven't already since I included the vcsetup.exe file in the archive now. This should fix all problems that people were initially having.

Title: Re: *RELEASE* - Bully LUA Compiler
Post by: FaZe on September 28, 2013, 06:48:10 AM

I have had LuaC for a Long time now, and Just today Avast! Picked it up as Win32:Evo-Gen[Susp]

Medium Risk

 Is this a F/P By avast or is this actually true. I am deleting LuaC Until I can find this out or get a reply.

Thanks.