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I have been trying to use luajit to compile luas, which is not relevant right now. However, when I try to enter luajit -h (which should usually list commands) into the cmd looking luajit.exe window, I get the error " '=' expected near '-' ".

I have tried everything, including building the program using visual studio (msvcbuild into visual studio console) but nothing has worked so far and I am just devastated.

This error seems so easy to fix, yet is just a nightmare for someone who doesn't code at all.

Jason Aller
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Karl Neuhauser
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    It sounds like you're opening luajit and typing `luajit -h` as Lua code. `luajit` is a shell command, so you'll need to open a terminal for that. (I don't know how to do that on Windows.) – luther May 28 '20 at 13:41

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The error you are facing is a Lua error. To Lua luajit -h doesn't make sense.

-h is a command line option It is appended to a command. In that case running luajit with the -h option will print the available command line options to your terminal console.

You can create a shortcut to luajit with that option or run luajit from your command line.

Start Window's command line interpreter cmd.exe and enter luajit -h. (assuming your luajit.exe is in PATH or you're already in the directory containing luajit.exe

Piglet
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