The specified module could not be found Error

[Caue-Aron]

I have moonglfw and moongl in the same directory as the ran script, tho when i execute the example code on the repo i get this error:

-- Script: hello.lua

gl = require("moongl")
glfw = require("moonglfw")

glfw.window_hint('context version major', 3)
glfw.window_hint('context version minor', 3)
glfw.window_hint('opengl profile', 'core')

window = glfw.create_window(600, 400, "Hello, World!")
glfw.make_context_current(window)
gl.init() -- this is actually glewInit()

function reshape(_, w, h) 
   print("window reshaped to "..w.."x"..h)
   gl.viewport(0, 0, w, h)
end

glfw.set_window_size_callback(window, reshape)

while not glfw.window_should_close(window) do
   glfw.poll_events()
   -- ... rendering code goes here ...
   gl.clear_color(1.0, 0.5, 0.2, 1.0) -- GLFW orange
   gl.clear("color", "depth")
   glfw.swap_buffers(window)
end

lua5.1: error loading module 'moongl' from file '.\moongl.dll':
        NÒo foi possÝvel encontrar o m¾dulo especificado.

stack traceback:
        [C]: ?
        [C]: in function 'require'
        test.lua:3: in main chunk
        [C]: ?

[stetre]

Is there any good reason not to stick to the installation instructions?

[stetre]

Are you using MSYS2/MinGW on Windows?

By the way, I see that you are using Lua 5.1. As stated in the README, this library and its companions require Lua >= 5.3. Some of them may work with previous versions but this is not guaranteed.

This shouldn't be the cause for this particular error you get, though. When you get a 'module not found' error from Lua it means that the required module is not in one of the paths specified in the variable package.cpath (for C modules) or package.path (for .lua modules). Try adding the following commands at the very top of the example script, before the require, and copy here the output you get:

print(package.cpath)
print(package.path)

[Caue-Aron]

I wanted to use those libs in luajit, thats why i built for lua 5.1. that didnt work, but building it for lua 5.4 worked just fine. I wanted to use it in luajit bc of imgui, i couldnt install the imgui_lua_bindings for standard lua.

[Antonygamergod]

me too

lua: error loading module 'moongl' from file '.\moongl.dll':
N�o foi poss�vel encontrar o m�dulo especificado.

stack traceback:
[C]: in ?
[C]: in function 'require'
c:\lua\opengl\opengl.lua:1: in main chunk
[C]: in ?

[Antonygamergod]

but im not using lua 5.1 or luajit, im using 5.4

[Antonygamergod]

it runs the moonglfw perfectly, but don't run the moongl