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== Instructions for Mac OS X == | == Instructions for Mac OS X == | ||
| − | * [[swig | + | * [[swig]] must already be installed. |
* Download [http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.0.3.tar.gz Lua 5.0.3] | * Download [http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.0.3.tar.gz Lua 5.0.3] | ||
* Untar lua-5.0.3.tar.gz into a folder of your choice | * Untar lua-5.0.3.tar.gz into a folder of your choice | ||
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=== Set CMake paths === | === 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 ''$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3'' |
# add lua to PATH | # add lua to PATH | ||
export PATH=$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3/bin:$PATH | export PATH=$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3/bin:$PATH | ||
Latest revision as of 00:28, 19 August 2009
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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
N/A
Instructions for Windows
N/A
