LuaForWindows_v5.1.4-46: http://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/downloads/list
Lua for Windows provides a development and running environment for Lua scripting language in Windows.
Lua is a small scripting language. The author is Brazilian. The language is designed to be embedded into an application and provide flexible scalability and customization for the application.
Lua scripts can be easily called by C/C ++ code, or call C/C ++ functions in turn, which makes Lua widely used in applications. Not only as an extension script, but also as a common configuration file, instead of XML, Ini and other file formats, and easier to understand and maintain.
Lua is compiled by standard C. The code is concise and elegant, and can be compiled and run on almost all operating systems and platforms.
A complete Lua interpreter is only 200 k. Currently, Lua is the fastest in all script engines. All of these determine that Lua is the best choice for embedded scripts.