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Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:30:13 -0000

Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Alan W. Irwin — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:48:49 -0000

Description

LUA is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

Instructions for Mac OS X

swig must already be installed.
Download Lua 5.0.3
Untar lua-5.0.3.tar.gz into a folder of your choice
Edit the file config. In particular you need to uncomment the following lines to enable dynamic loading of libraries.

LOADLIB= -DUSE_DLOPEN=1
DLLIB= -ldl

Further set the installation prefix in config if you don't like the standard path.
Run

make && make install

Lua executable, libraries and headers are now installed.

Set CMake paths

Set environment variables if you didn't use the standard path, e.g add the following lines to the .profile file in your home directory, if you installed Lua to $HOME/local/lua-5.0.3

# add lua to PATH
export PATH=$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3/bin:$PATH
export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3/lib:$CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH
export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3/include:$CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH

CMake is now able to find Lua.

Instructions for Linux

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Instructions for Windows

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Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Lua modified by Alan W. Irwin

Description

Instructions for Mac OS X

Set CMake paths

Instructions for Linux

Instructions for Windows