[SOLVED] changing visual style for lua exe created with wsrlua.exe

changing visual style for lua exe created with wsrlua.exe

I am trying to create an Windows Gui exe with srlua (5.1) it created successfully but with classic windows like visual styles. I wanted a xp or modern win8 style. The script as I run with Lua for Windows's wlua.exe shows a modern win8 style. what do i do? Do I need to recompile srlua with win8 comctrl ver 6.0.0 style OR WLUA.EXE Still can be used for exe building by replacing wsrlua with it.

Thanks.

Solution

The resulting executable must have the manifest that enables visual styles. I don't use srlua, but I think you have to rebuild srlua.exe to be built just like wlua.exe is.

There are a few differences between lua.exe and wlua.exe:

not a console application (-subsystem:windows)
have a WinMain (see wmain.c in LuaBinaries source)
includes a resource file with a manifest (see wlua.rc)