ARCHIVED: Checkout LadyLua for your standalone Lua programs.

Compile Lua 5.1 and LuaJIT source code into standalone executables. This makes it easy to use them for general purpose scripting.

Requires: GNU Make, a compiler and binutils (or equivalent). Installing development tools e.g. the package build-essential should have everything you need. Does not require autotools.
Note: Linux 3.17+ (5 Oct 2014) and glibc 2.25+ only for getrandom().

Getting started

1. Edit the following space delimited variables in the top-level Makefile
   MAIN: The "main" script in the bin/ directory
   SRC: Modules that are specific to your application. Copy these to src/lua.
   SRC_DIR: Directories containing modules that are specific to your application. Copy these to src/lua.
   VENDOR: 3rd party modules
   VENDOR_DIR: directories containing 3rd party modules
   

2. Copy the main source file into the bin/ directory.

3. Copy modules into src/lua/ or vendor/lua/.

The SRC, VENDOR split is just for organization. Underneath they are using the same Make routines.

1. Run make
   
2. The executable will be located under the bin/ directory

Adding plain Lua modules. (NOTE: VENDOR and SRC are interchangeable.)

Adding plain modules is trivial. $(NAME) is the name of the module passed to VENDOR.

1. Copy the module to vendor/lua/$(NAME).lua
   example: cp ~/Downloads/dkjson.lua vendor/lua
2. Add $(NAME) to VENDOR
   example: VENDOR= re dkjson

For modules that are split into multile files, such as Penlight:

1. Copy the directory of the Lua to vendor/lua/$(NAME)
   example: cp -R ~/Download/Penlight-1.3.1/lua/pl vendor/lua
2. Add $(NAME) to VENDOR_DIR
   example: VENDOR_DIR= pl

For modules with multiple levels of directories you will have to pass each directory. Example:
VENDOR_DIR= ldoc ldoc/builtin ldoc/html

Lua does not have facilities to traverse directories and I'd like to avoid shell out functions.

Included projects

Project	Version	License
LuaJIT	v2.1-20201012-2	MIT
luastatic	0.0.12	CC0

Available modules (Feel free to open a Github issue if you want help with adding a new Lua module.)

Module	Version	License
LPegLJ[1]	1.0.0	MIT
luafilesystem	0.3	MIT
u-test	113259f	MIT
argparse	20c1445	MIT
moonscript	29d8ccc	MIT
lunajson	1dcf3fa	MIT
base64	769e16d	APL2
sqlite3[3]	d742002	MIT
luassert[2]	36fc3af	MIT
list	7f8ee88	MIT
yaml	d280b04	MIT

[1] Renamed to lpeg. require"lpeg" to require it.
[2] Incomplete import. Some files, utility type code only.
[3] Patched.