Why Do the Lua Binaries Contain .h and .c Files, but Lua IUP Binaries Contain .DLLs?

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I'm trying to update an old app that uses Lua and IUP, but I'm not very experienced, so I'm wondering if I have too many files. I originally downloaded Lua 5.4.3 and followed a tutorial on how to turn those .c and .h files into Lua.dll, Lua.exe, Lua.lib, and Luac.exe.

Then I downloaded iup-3.30-Lua54_Win64_bin.zip and extracted to it's own folder. That folder contains a bunch of .DLLs and a few .EXEs. Since those files have their own interpreter (iuplua54.exe), are the files in Lua 5.4.3 unnecessary? Why do these downloads have different file types? Did I install them wrong or did I get the wrong files?

I'm having issues with different Lua .exe files giving me different errors when I try to open a particular .lua script.

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