6. Installing Lua¶

After a successfully building lua binaries with e.g. gcc, you can install lua by running:

Windows

waf install_gcc

Linux/Unix/Unix-like/macOS

$ python3 waf install_gcc

The following files are installed:

Windows

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\lua\bin
- lua.exe
- lua.exe.manifest (msvc only)
- luac.exe
- luac.exe.manifest (msvc only)
- luadll.dll
- luadll.dll.manifest (msvc only)
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\lua\include
- lauxlib.h
- lua.h
- lua.hpp
- luaconf.h
- lualib.h
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\lua\lib
- luadll.dll.a (gcc only)
- luadll.dll (clang, msvc only)
- luadll.dll.manifest (msvc only)
- luadll.lib (msvc only)

Linux/Unix/Unix-like/macOS