Please use the original repository, unless:

• lua-subprocess simply doesn't work at all for you on Windows.
• You're trying to build lua-subprocess for Windows via Visual Studio.
• You're trying to build lua-subprocess for any other platform via LuaRocks.
• You absolutely hate LuaRocks on Windows.
• You absolutely love LuaRocks on every other platform.

Also, please read the original subprocess.txt first.

This repository contains some minor fixes to get lua-subprocess to work properly on Windows, and a hackily glued .rockspec.

For clarity, I am not intending to maintain this fork. I'm simply sharing my "fixes" in case they are helpful for anyone else dealing with the inability of Lua's io.popen to communicate with a subprocess properly, but also with the inability of the original code to even start a process on Windows.
If anyone is willing to maintain lua-subprocess (maybe even as a proper rock), feel free to fork this (or the original) repository and to include the fixes from this repository. The MIT license of the original repository (top of subprocess.c) still applies to this fork.

The following command should take care of everything for you, assuming it works in the first place:

luarocks install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0x0ade/lua-subprocess/master/subprocess-scm-1.rockspec

The Visual Studio project assumes that you've installed (or at least got a symlink to your installation of) LuaRocks to luarocks in this folder. If this is not the case (and it probably isn't), feel free to change the build properties.

The resulting binary is named subprocess.dll to match the existing Linux binary name in the original Makefile, and more importantly, to match the existing luaopen_subprocess function name.