LuaDist - Automated CMake based distribution for the Lua programming language

LuaDist is a CMake-based multi-platform standalone Lua distribution providing a build environment and module management. For more information please visit http://www.luadist.org.

Availability

LuaDist is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes under MIT license. See COPYRIGHT for details. Please see individual packages for their license.

Installation

LuaDist relies on CMake (www.cmake.org) for building. The build process consists of two stages. First stage in the CMake based bootstrap that will build and install all needed components. Second stage uses the bootstrap environment to build and install the final release. This process is needed to ensure LuaDist remains self update-able and endorses its correct deployment structure.

To build LuaDist please use the provided Bootstrap repository. Alternatively look up updated install instructions on www.luadist.org

Running

LuaDist installs to a standalone directory and should be able to execute on most systems supported systems without the need to set up any environment.

To invoke the luadist CLI simply use:

$ cd luadist/bin
$ ./luadist

Any other binaries distributed using LuaDist can also be invoked directly

$ cd luadist/bin
$ ./luac
$ ./lua

For advanced use please consult the Project Wiki

Compatibility

LuaDist was designed to support Unix/Linux, Mac and Windows installs.

Following systems are supported: Linux, x86, x86_64 (Ubuntu tested) OS X, Intel, x86, x86_64 (10.7) Windows 7, MinGW compiler, 32bit Windows 7, Cygwin, 32bit

Authors

Peter Drahoš Peter Kapec David Manura Jozef Lang Matej Lipták

NOTE: LuaDist installable components "dists" contain their copyright and legal information. Authors of the contents of these components are not related to the LuaDist project.

Thanks

We would like to thank the following people who directly or indirectly contributed to the project.

Roberto Ierusalimschy Waldemar Celes Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo Mike Pall Hisham Muhamad Karl M. Syrings David Manura André Carregal Tomás Guisasola Diego Nehab All "dist" authors and maintainers.

Thank You.