Makefile platform detection fails with modern MinGW64 (MINGW64_NT-10.0-26200)

[Usman]

1. Environment: Windows 11, WinLibs MinGW64, Lua 5.5.0
2. Problem: uname returns detailed MinGW64 string not handled by guess target
3. Error Message: "No rule to make target 'MINGW64_NT-10.0-26200'"
4. Proposed Fix: Show your modified guess target with case statement
5. Impact: Prevents compilation on modern Windows MinGW64 environments
   
   So yeah, to summarize, was trying to compile the latest 5.5 release using my winlibs downloaded mingw64( no mysys2) on windows, and turns out the build is missing targets. 
   
   
   

[Augusto Goulart]

You can use "make mingw test" which should build and output:
./lua -v
Lua 5.5.0  Copyright (C) 1994-2025 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

Then use "make install", that will do:

cd src && mkdir -p /usr/local/bin /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/local/share/lua/5.5 /usr/local/lib/lua/5.5
cd src && install -p -m 0755 lua luac /usr/local/bin
cd src && install -p -m 0644 lua.h luaconf.h lualib.h lauxlib.h lua.hpp /usr/local/include
cd src && install -p -m 0644 liblua.a /usr/local/lib
cd doc && install -p -m 0644 lua.1 luac.1 /usr/local/man/man1

Just tested on:

uname -s
MINGW64_NT-10.0-26100

Augusto

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