SciTE-WOWInterface 

Something I just noticed. The original lua.exe module is 197K in size. The lua5.1.exe module that came from lua5_1_1_Win32_bin.zip is only 20K.

Recap of actions:

Before I started doing anything the bin folder had these files;
bitlib.dll
lua.exe
luac.exe

I download and unzipped lua5_1_1_Win32_bin.zip which had these files;
bin2c5.1.exe
lua5.1.exe
lua5.1.dll
luac5.1.exe

I deleted the original lua.exe and luac.exe files from the bin folder, renamed the lua5.1.exe and luac5.1.exe to lua.exe and luac.exe and moved them into the bin folder. I moved the lua5.1.dll file into the bin folder without renaming it.

The bin folder now has in it;
lua5.1.dll
lua.exe
luac.exe
bitlib.dll

The error messages when doing a Tools/Go were:

>bin\lua.exe -l "C:\SciTE\lib\wow.lua" "MyTest.lua"
bin\lua.exe: module 'C:\SciTE\lib\wow.lua' not found:
no field package.preload['C:\SciTE\lib\wow.lua']
no file '.\C:\SciTE\lib\wow\lua.lua'
no file 'C:\SciTE\bin\lua\C:\SciTE\lib\wow\lua.lua'
no file 'C:\SciTE\bin\lua\C:\SciTE\lib\wow\lua\init.lua'
no file 'C:\SciTE\bin\C:\SciTE\lib\wow\lua.lua'
no file 'C:\SciTE\bin\C:\SciTE\lib\wow\lua\init.lua'
no file '.\C:\SciTE\lib\wow\lua.dll'
no file 'C:\SciTE\bin\C:\SciTE\lib\wow\lua.dll'
no file 'C:\SciTE\bin\loadall.dll'
no file '.\C:\SciTE\lib\wow.dll'
no file 'C:\SciTE\bin\C:\SciTE\lib\wow.dll'
no file 'C:\SciTE\bin\loadall.dll'
>Exit code: 1 Time: 0.234

I hope this helps you.

I did that and then got a fistful of error messages. So I put the old files back and will just temporarily comment out any lines that use ... to be able to error check the rest of the code. Thanks for the help!

I downoaded lua5_1_1_Win32_bin.zip. After unzipping into a temporary folder I now have these files;
bin2c5.1
lua5.1
lua5.1.dll
luac5.1

What and where do I put them and do I have to rename them?

I went to http://luabinaries.luaforge.net/download.html and selected lua5_1_3_Win32_bin.zip. After unzipping I copied lua5.1 and luac5.1 into the bin folder and it now works. Thanks for the help!

edit: Ooops, another problem. I will look into it more. I obviously don't understand all this PC stuff.

I lifted this line of code from the beta 2.4 version of Recap and put it into my code. And when I do a Tools/Go I get this message.

C:\SciTE-WOWInterface\bin\lua.exe: MyTest.lua:21: unexpected symbol near `...'

-- get the eight arguments common to all events (the ellipsis is a variable pointing to a list of arguments)
local timestamp, eventType, sourceGUID, sourceName, sourceFlags, destGUID, destName, destFlags = ...

When using this version of SciTE I noticed that using the vararg (...) in my code causes the Tools/Go function to give an error indication as in "unexpected symbol near `...'"

Is there a later version that supports Lua 5.1? Or is this not my problem?

So, this may be a silly question, but is there a way to get the WoW API integrated into SciTE in Linux? I see some files for the API floating around, and if it's a matter of compiling something via pseudo-conventional means, I probably have the know-how to get it done. If there's a way I can just insert the WoW API, though, that would make things a great deal simpler for me!

I only recommend Lua version 5.1.1 compiled for this specific purpose:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...a5.1.1WoW.html

You are using a different Lua package (probably the official one) if you have files with those names.

Take Lua.exe and Luac.exe from the correct package (in lua511wow-1.7.zip\lua511wow\msvc\release) and use those files to replace the 2 files with the same names which are present in the directory "SciTE-WOWInterface\bin".

If you are "zomg keylogger" worried you can compile the binaries yourself using Visual Studio (and check the source code too).

These are free tools developed for a very limited project and take a little bit of effort to work with rather than your copies of VS.net and Eclipse which have a huge number of contributors. The hard work doesn't end here as SciTE doesn't provide many autocompletion features.