eli - Lua interpreter & essentials

Contains libs and function necessary for basic server side scripting.

Embedded libraries:

• eli
• eli.fs.extra
• eli.proc.extra
• eli.env.extra
• eli.os.extra
• eli.pipe.extra
• eli.stream.extra
• eli.extra.utils
• hjson
• lustache
• lzip + libzip + zlib
• corehttp
• lua-corehttp
• lua-simple-socket
• lua-simple-ipc
• mbedtls
• lua-mbed-base64 + lua-mbed-bigint + lua-mbed-hash

Predefined variables:

• interpreter - path to interpreter
• APP_ROOT_SCRIPT - path to executed script
• APP_ROOT - path to directory containing APP_ROOT_SCRIPT
• ELI_LIB_VERSION - version of eli library

Install latest binary release (currently unix only)

wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alis-is/eli/main/install.sh -O /tmp/install.sh && sudo sh /tmp/install.sh

Build eli

Build requirements:

• docker or podman

Steps:

1. git clone https://github.com/alis-is/eli && cd eli
2. docker build -t elibuild ./containers/build
3. docker build -t elitest ./containers/test
4. docker run -w "/root/luabuild" -v $(pwd):"/root/luabuild" -v "$(pwd)/toolchains:/opt/cross" -e TOOLCHAINS='zig:x86_64-linux-musl;zig:x86_64-windows-gnu;zig:x86_64-macos-none' -it elibuild
5. docker run -w "/root/luabuild" -v $(pwd):"/root/luabuild" -it elitest
6. Built binaries eli and elic will be created in release directory

Note: You can choose build toolchain you like from https://musl.cc/ and set its name in TOOLCHAINS

Tests:

• Run run_tests.sh with args and
  • Example: ./run_tests.sh $(pwd)/build/eli all.lua

Tools used for build:

• eli
• luasrcdiet (for minfication)