Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. It is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is implemented as a small library of C functions, written in ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. The implementation goals are simplicity, efficiency, portability, and low embedding cost. The result is a fast language engine with small footprint, making it ideal in embedded systems too.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: dc7f94ec6ff15c985d2d6ad0f1b35654
Download size: 248 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.5 MB
Estimated build time: Less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lua
Install Lua by running the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../lua-5.2.3-shared_library-1.patch && sed -i '/#define LUA_ROOT/s:/usr/local/:/usr/:' src/luaconf.h && make linux
To test the results, issue: make test.
Now, as the root user:
make INSTALL_TOP=/usr TO_LIB="liblua.so liblua.so.5.2 liblua.so.5.2.3" \
INSTALL_DATA="cp -d" INSTALL_MAN=/usr/share/man/man1 install &&
mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/lua-5.2.3 &&
cp -v doc/*.{html,css,gif,png} /usr/share/doc/lua-5.2.3
Some packages check for the pkg-config file for Lua. As the root user:
cat > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc << "EOF"
V=5.2
R=5.2.3
prefix=/usr
INSTALL_BIN=${prefix}/bin
INSTALL_INC=${prefix}/include
INSTALL_LIB=${prefix}/lib
INSTALL_MAN=${prefix}/man/man1
INSTALL_LMOD=${prefix}/share/lua/${V}
INSTALL_CMOD=${prefix}/lib/lua/${V}
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
Name: Lua
Description: An Extensible Extension Language
Version: ${R}
Requires:
Libs: -L${libdir} -llua -lm
Cflags: -I${includedir}
EOF
sed -i ...: This command changes Lua search path to match the install paths.
Last updated on 2014-02-17 15:16:31 -0800