Invoke msvc from the luarocks installer instead of mingw-gcc

[brian6932]

Is there a way to do this? I tried to install the module with luarocks, but it tries to use mingw, even though the repo has msvc scripts.

❯ luarocks install Lua-cURL --server=https://luarocks.org/dev CURL_INCDIR="$(scoop prefix curl)/include" CURL_DIR=$(scoop prefix curl)
Installing https://luarocks.org/dev/lua-curl-scm-0.rockspec


lua-curl scm-0 depends on lua >= 5.1, < 5.5 (5.4-1 provided by VM: success)
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc /arch:AVX512 /EHsc -c -o src/l52util.o -I~/scoop/apps/lua/current/include src/l52util.c -IC:\ProgramData\scoop\apps\curl\current/include
'x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Error: Build error: Failed compiling object src/l52util.o

[brian6932]

I have been made aware that this project uses the ancient vcproj files, which modern MSVC (msbuild.exe) doesn't work with. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom doesn't bundle the vcproj->vcxproj conversion tool (devenv.exe) with their MSVC Build Tools, and for some fucking reason, with no way to download the binary independently, only includes it with the full VS IDE...