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Discovered building v1.1.0 that the MSI can be produced entirely on
Linux — no Windows VM, no manual WiX install, no GUI babysitting:
apt install wixl unzip gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 \
mingw-w64-x86-64-dev curl
The new build-msi.sh script:
1. Runs sync.sh to refresh pkg/{lmcp,server,json}.lua from root.
2. Downloads Lua 5.4.2 Win64 binaries from LuaBinaries (Tools +
Library zips — interpreter + headers + import lib).
3. Cross-compiles LuaSocket 3.1.0 via x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
(produces socket-3.0.0.dll + mime-1.0.3.dll for Win64).
4. Stages pkg/lua/{lua.exe, lua54.dll, socket/, mime/, *.lua} per
the WiX manifest layout.
5. Invokes wixl on the lmcp.wxs manifest (with sed for the
Windows backslash path separators → forward slashes).
Output: lmcp-<version>.msi. Version is read from lmcp.wxs
Version="…", so bump that before each release.
Cold build: ~30s. Warm cache: ~5s. The artifact contains all 17
files the WiX manifest expects, ProductVersion matches lmcp.wxs.
README updated to point at build-msi.sh as the recommended path;
the Windows-side candle/light recipe kept as an alternative.
Reproducibility note (deferred): the MSI is not yet bit-reproducible
across builds — file mtimes in the Lua binaries' zip propagate to
the cab inside the MSI. The debian/lmcp/build-deb.sh in marfrit-
packages uses SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to fix this; same pattern would
apply here. Out of scope for the first cut.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
lmcp — Lua MCP server
Lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in pure Lua.
Runtime dependencies
- Lua 5.1+
- luasocket — needed for the TCP
listener. Packaged as
lua-socketon Arch/ALARM,lua-socketon Debian.
Files
| File | Role |
|---|---|
lmcp.lua |
library: protocol handling, tool registration |
server.lua |
HTTP server loop |
json.lua |
vendored JSON encoder/decoder |
example_server.lua |
sample server with a couple of tools |
Install
Packaged as lmcp in the marfrit overlay repo:
# Arch / ALARM
sudo pacman -S lmcp
# Debian
sudo apt install lmcp
Files land under /usr/share/lua/5.4/ (Lua LUA_PATH).
The example server installs as /usr/bin/lmcp-example.