How to compile Lua 5.4.0 for Linux as a shared library

Sunday, May 24th, 2020 | Dennis D. Spreen | Linux, Lua

This is a tutorial on how to compile Lua 5.4.0 for Linux as a shared library.

This tutorial on how to build Lua for Linux is based on the Stack Overflow question Compiling Lua create .so files? and the answers by @dcarrith and @simonemainardi – for or a complete makefile take a look there!

This is just a quick hack to spill out a shared library therefore the make file isn’t complete in terms of clean up and testing.

1. Download and extract the Lua 5.4.0 source code

2. Edit the src/makefile and add the last line shown below “$(CC) -shared..” directly under the “$(RANLIB) $@” line. Be sure to use TAB for spacing!

$(LUA_A): $(BASE_O)

$(AR) $@ $(BASE_O)

$(RANLIB) $@

$(CC) -shared -ldl -Wl,-soname,liblua$R.so -o liblua$R.so $? -lm $(MYLDFLAGS)

3. Open a terminal, navigate to the base folder and run

make "MYCFLAGS=-fPIC" "R=5.4.0"

You should now have a liblua5.4.0.so shared library in the src/ folder.

Tags: dll, linux, Lua, lua5.4, shared library

1 Comment to How to compile Lua 5.4.0 for Linux as a shared library

Ali
December 31, 2020

Thanks.

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