source: general/prog/lua.xml@ c1a0390

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY lua-download-http "http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-&lua-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY lua-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY lua-md5sum        "efbb645e897eae37cad4344ce8b0a614">
  <!ENTITY lua-size          "246 KB">
  <!ENTITY lua-buildsize     "3.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY lua-time          "0.1 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="lua" xreflabel="Lua-&lua-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="lua.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Lua-&lua-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="lua">
    <primary sortas="a-Lua">Lua</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Lua</title>

    <para>
      <application>Lua</application> is a powerful light-weight programming
      language designed for extending applications. It is also frequently used
      as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. <application>Lua</application>
      combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description
      constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. It is
      dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory
      management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration,
      scripting, and rapid prototyping. A fundamental concept in the design of
      <application>Lua</application> is to provide meta-mechanisms for
      implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in
      the language. For example, although <application>Lua</application> is not
      a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for
      implementing classes and inheritance. <application>Lua</application>'s
      meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the language small,
      while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional ways.
      Extensible semantics is a distinguishing feature of
      <application>Lua</application>. <application>Lua</application> is a
      language engine that you can embed into your application. This means that,
      besides syntax and semantics, it has an API that allows the application to
      exchange data with <application>Lua</application> programs and also to
      extend <application>Lua</application> with C functions. In this sense, it
      can be regarded as a language framework for building domain-specific
      languages. <application>Lua</application> is implemented as a small
      library of C functions, written in ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all
      known platforms. The implementation goals are simplicity, efficiency,
      portability, and low embedding cost. The result is a fast language engine
      with small footprint, making it ideal in embedded systems too.
    </para>

    &lfs73_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&lua-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&lua-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &lua-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &lua-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &lua-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &lua-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/lua"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Lua</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>Lua</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>make linux</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make test</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make INSTALL_TOP=/usr install &amp;&amp;
mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/lua-&lua-version; &amp;&amp;
cp -v doc/*.{html,css,gif,png} /usr/share/doc/lua-&lua-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          lua and luac
        </seg>
        <seg>
          liblua.a
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/lua,
          /usr/share/lua and
          /usr/share/doc/lua-&lua-version;
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="lua-prog">
        <term><command>lua</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the standalone Lua interpreter.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="lua lua-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-lua">lua</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="luac">
        <term><command>luac</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the Lua compiler.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="lua luac">
            <primary sortas="b-luac">luac</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>