Lua

5.4.7

Warning

due to a bug in the 0.13.0 release of the zig compiler you will need the development version of zig in order to build the lua54.dll on windows.

Build Instructions

To build all targets run

zig build

Build Artifacts

Name	Artifact
"lua"	The main lua library
"lua_exe"	The lua interpreter
"luac"	The lua bytecode compiler

Compile Options

Name	Type	Description
release	bool	optimize for end users
shared	bool	build as shared library
use_readline	bool	readline support for linux

Using in a zig project

To add to a zig project run:

zig fetch --save https://github.com/allyourcodebase/lua/archive/refs/tags/5.4.7.tar.gz

then add the following to your build.zig

const lua_dep = b.dependency("lua", .{
    .target = target,
    .release = optimize != .Debug,
});
const lua_lib = lua_dep.artifact("lua");