LuaDist Support Windows, Linux, MacOS

LuaDist can be downloaded from here, however, here is a direct download link LuaDist 0.2.2 + batteries 0.9.8.

A little on LuaDist:

• Installs libs to luadist/lib/lua/*
• Most installed libs are either .lua or .dll files
• Suggested naming convention for the load .dll seems to be core.dll
• Sometimes two luadist install package commands need to be issued for packages to actually install
• Downloaded source files are not retained
• CMake is a strict dependency
• Not all modules work out of the box except with lua51 and LuaJIT
• LuaDist is an .exe and there is nothing to be done with making luaw support it except package location

In order to attempt to use LuaDist packages, you will need to add the libs path to LUA_CPATH and LUA_PATH. Here is a little explanation. I recommend using a shell script, as you can also append more to it as you go... like library repository switching. You should add @lua_path_cpaths.bat as LUA_INIT environment variable then, as it will execute that file automatically for you. ALTHOUGH, you can change where it installs things, which defeats the purpose of reusing modules if its a local-to-the-project install

You must use luadist or luarocks for all your package needs. LuaConsole has no in-house support for actually downloading packages.

Windows:

@echo off
setx LUA_PATH C:\LuaDist\lib\lua\?.lua;%LUA_PATH%
setx LUAC_PATH C:\LuaDist\lib\lua\?.dll;%LUA_CPATH%

Unix:

(Guessing where you installed LuaDist, assuming /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib)

export LUA_PATH=/usr/local/lib/lua/?.lua:$LUA_PATH
export LUA_CPATH=/usr/local/lib/lua/?.so:$LUA_CPATH

NOTE: You can always execute things from different directories in luadist\lib\lua by appending the folders to the module name with periods. Example: require("socket.core"), which loads something like luadist\lib\lua>>\socket\core.dll<<