lua-batteries is a batteries included lua installation more specifically it is set of meson build scripts to build Lua, LuaJIT, luarocks and many useful libraries and modules. These scripts were initially based on franko's lua and luajit meson build scripts but now they are extended to next level.
List of included libraries and modules provided by lua-batteries:
| Package | Build Version | Upstream Version |
|---|---|---|
| argparse |  |
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| bit32 |  |
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| cffi-lua |  |
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| compat53 |  |
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| date |  |
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| inpsect |  |
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| lanes |  |
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| lpeg |  |
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| lrexlib-pcre2 |  |
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| lua-cjson |  |
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| luafilesystem |  |
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| luaossl |  |
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| luaposix |  |
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| lua-protobuf |  |
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| luasec |  |
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| luasocket |  |
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| lua-sdl2 |  |
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| lua-batteries/luastatic |  |
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| luasql-sqlite3 |  |
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| luautf8 |  |
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| lua-zip |  |
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| lua-zlib |  |
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| ltui |  |
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| lui | |
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| luv |  |
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| lyaml |  |
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| openssl |  |
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| penlight |  |
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| toml |  |
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| uuid |  |
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| winapi |  |
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| xml2lua |  |
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Visit releases for prebuilt binaries. You just need to extract archive and add bin directory in your PATH environment variable. Also, see INSTALL.md for installation instructions through meson.
These prebuilt binaries includes Lua 5.4.6, LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 and luarocks 3.9.2
| Host | Architecture | Compiler | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | x86_64 | GCC | .tar.xz |
| Windows | x86_64 | MinGW-W64 | .7z |
| Windows | x86_64 | MSVC | .7z |
$ rm -rf /usr/local/lua-batteries-*
$ mkdir /usr/local/lua-batteries-0.5.15
$ curl -L https://github.com/lua-batteries/lua-batteries/releases/download/v0.5.15/lua-batteries-v0.5.15-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz | tar xJC /usr/local/lua-batteries-0.5.15
$ printf "\nexport PATH=\"\$PATH:/usr/local/lua-batteries-0.5.15/bin\"\n" >> $HOME/.profile
$ source $HOME/.profile
$ lua -v