| Port variant | std |
| Summary | Light, powerful language for app. extension |
| Package version | 5.5.0 |
| Homepage | https://www.lua.org/ |
| Keywords | lang |
| Maintainer | nobody |
| License | MIT |
| Other variants | There are no other variants. |
| Ravenports | Buildsheet | History |
| Ravensource | Port Directory | History |
| Last modified | 24 JAN 2026, 14:52:53 UTC |
| Port created | 24 JAN 2026, 14:52:53 UTC |
| set | This is the lua55:std metapackage. It pulls in all subpackages of lua55:std. |
| primary | Lua is a programming language originally designed for extending applications, but also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax (similar to Pascal) with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua 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 Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance. Lua'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 Lua. Lua 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. |
| tools | This package contains the Lua interpreter and the Lua compiler. |
| dev | This is the developer subpackage of the lua55:std port. It may contain headers, pc files, static and PIC libraries and SO links. |
| man | This is the man page subpackage of the lua55:std port. |
| Build (only) |
libedit:dev:std libedit:primary:std readline:dev:std |
| Build and Runtime | readline:primary:std |
| Runtime (only) | libedit:primary:std (tools subpackage) |
| main | https://www.lua.org/ftp/ |
| ldoc:lua55 | LuaDoc-compatible doc gen system for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-alt-getopt:lua55 | Argument processing module for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-bitop:lua55 | Bitwise operations on numbers for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-filesystem:lua55 | Advanced filesystem-related functions for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-lpeg:lua55 | Parsing Expression Grammars for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-luarocks:lua55 | Package manager for Lua modules (Lua 5.5) |
| lua-mpack:lua55 | Lua 5.5 binding to libmpack |
| lua-penlight:lua55 | Various python-inspired functions for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-posix:lua55 | POSIX API bindings for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-sec:lua55 | SSL/TLS support module for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-socket:lua55 | Comprehensive networking module for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-stdlib-debug:lua55 | Debug hints management library for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-stdlib-normalize:lua55 | Collection of normalized functions for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-sysctl:lua55 | Small FBSD sysctl(3) interface for Lua 5.5 |
| lua-zlib:lua55 | Simple streaming interface to Zlib for Lua 5.5 |