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Smekal at 08:28, 19 August 2009

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‎Instructions for Mac OS X

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== Description ==

[http://www.lua.org/ 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 SWIG]] must already be installed.
* 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
* 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 ==

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 === 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 ''$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3''
+* Set environment variables if you didn't use the standard path, e.g add the following lines to the ''.profile'' file in your home directory, if you installed Lua to ''$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3''
   # add lua to PATH
   export PATH=$HOME/local/lua-5.0.3/bin:$PATH

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 == Instructions for Mac OS X ==
-* [[swig SWIG]] must already be installed.
+* [[swig]] must already be installed.
 * 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