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Install_Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:13:45 -0000

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 In order for the high-class Lua bindings and examples for PLplot to work you must install Lua on your Windows platform.

 The Lua build only takes a minute or so. Thus the simplest way to install Lua is to first [install MinGW/MSYS](Install_MinGW_MSYS "wikilink") (if you haven't done so already). Then use that compiler and associated build tools to build Lua on Windows with the following steps:

Install_Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:19:59 -0000

Install_Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 06:08:07 -0000

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 In order for the high-class Lua bindings and examples for PLplot to work you must install Lua on your Windows platform.

-The Lua build only takes a minute or so. Thus the simplest way to install Lua is to first [install MinGW/MSYS](Install_MinGW%2FMSYS "wikilink") (if you haven't done so already). Then use that compiler and associated build tools to build Lua on Windows with the following steps:
+The Lua build only takes a minute or so. Thus the simplest way to install Lua is to first [install MinGW/MSYS](Install_MinGW_MSYS "wikilink") (if you haven't done so already). Then use that compiler and associated build tools to build Lua on Windows with the following steps:

 -   Put both MinGW and MSYS on your PATH. This puts all sorts of command-line tools at your fingertips that will be used in the further steps.
 -   Set the LUA_PREFIX variable which points to the directory used for all further steps. Under bash (available as part of MSYS), I set "LUA_PREFIX=/z/home/wine/newstart/lua/", but use whatever is convenient for you.

Install_Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 06:00:57 -0000

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 In order for the high-class Lua bindings and examples for PLplot to work you must install Lua on your Windows platform.

-The Lua build only takes a minute or so. Thus the simplest way to install Lua is to first [install MinGW/MSYS](Install_MinGW/MSYS "wikilink") (if you haven't done so already). Then use that compiler and associated build tools to build Lua on Windows with the following steps:
+The Lua build only takes a minute or so. Thus the simplest way to install Lua is to first [install MinGW/MSYS](Install_MinGW%2FMSYS "wikilink") (if you haven't done so already). Then use that compiler and associated build tools to build Lua on Windows with the following steps:

 -   Put both MinGW and MSYS on your PATH. This puts all sorts of command-line tools at your fingertips that will be used in the further steps.
 -   Set the LUA_PREFIX variable which points to the directory used for all further steps. Under bash (available as part of MSYS), I set "LUA_PREFIX=/z/home/wine/newstart/lua/", but use whatever is convenient for you.

Install_Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 05:57:49 -0000

In order for the high-class Lua bindings and examples for PLplot to work you must install Lua on your Windows platform.

The Lua build only takes a minute or so. Thus the simplest way to install Lua is to first install MinGW/MSYS (if you haven't done so already). Then use that compiler and associated build tools to build Lua on Windows with the following steps:

Put both MinGW and MSYS on your PATH. This puts all sorts of command-line tools at your fingertips that will be used in the further steps.
Set the LUA_PREFIX variable which points to the directory used for all further steps. Under bash (available as part of MSYS), I set "LUA_PREFIX=/z/home/wine/newstart/lua/", but use whatever is convenient for you.
Create that directory if it doesn't exist already and change directory to that location using the following commands:
- mkdir -p \$LUA_PREFIX
- cd \$LUA_PREFIX
Download http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz in that location.
Unpack, build, and install Lua using the following commands (where that last "cp -a" command works around a bug in the lua-5.1.4 build system for MinGW/MSYS):
- tar zxf lua-5.1.4.tar.gz
- cd lua-5.1.4
- make mingw >& make_mingw.out
- make install INSTALL_TOP=\$LUA_PREFIX/install >& make_install.out
- cp -a src/lua51.dll \$LUA_PREFIX/install/bin

To make Lua accessible to the PLplot CMake-based build system, you must put the lua command on your PATH (using "PATH=\$LUA_PREFIX/install/bin:\$PATH") and use the following cmake options for your PLplot build:

-DLUA_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=\$LUA_PREFIX/install/include
-DLUA_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=\$LUA_PREFIX/install/lib/liblua.a

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