lua53
Port variant standard
Summary Light, powerful language for app. extension
Package version 5.3.6_1
Homepage https://www.lua.org/
Keywords lang
Maintainer nobody
License MIT
Other variants There are no other variants.
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Last modified 06 JAN 2024, 05:04:25 UTC
Port created 26 APR 2017, 18:18:28 UTC
Subpackage Descriptions
complete This is the lua53-standard metapackage. It pulls in all subpackages of lua53-standard.
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 lua53-standard port. It may contain headers, pc files, static and PIC libraries and SO links.
man This is the man page subpackage of the lua53-standard port.
Configuration Switches (platform-specific settings discarded)
This port has no build options.
Package Dependencies by Type
Build (only) libedit:single:standard
readline:dev:standard
Build and Runtime readline:primary:standard
Runtime (only) libedit:single:standard (tools subpackage)
Download groups
main https://www.lua.org/ftp/
Distribution File Information
fc5fd69bb8736323f026672b1b7235da613d7177e72558893a0bdcd320466d60 303770 lua-5.3.6.tar.gz
Ports that require lua53:standard
awesome:standard Dynamic WM for X, highly configurable in Lua
ldoc:lua53 LuaDoc-compatible doc gen system for Lua 5.3
lighttpd:standard Lightweight high-performance web server
lua-ada:standard Ada binding for Lua
lua-bitop:lua53 Bitwise operations on numbers for Lua 5.3
lua-filesystem:lua53 Advanced filesystem-related functions for Lua 5.3
lua-lgi:lua53 Bindings using gobject-introspection for Lua 5.3
lua-lpeg:lua53 Parsing Expression Grammars for Lua 5.3
lua-luarocks:lua53 Package manager for Lua modules (Lua 5.3)
lua-mpack:lua53 Lua 5.3 binding to libmpack
lua-penlight:lua53 Various python-inspired functions for Lua 5.3
lua-posix:lua53 POSIX API bindings for Lua 5.3
lua-sec:lua53 SSL/TLS support module for Lua 5.3
lua-socket:lua53 Comprehensive networking module for Lua 5.3
lua-stdlib-debug:lua53 Debug hints management library for Lua 5.3
lua-stdlib-normalize:lua53 Collection of normalized functions for Lua 5.3
lua-sysctl:lua53 Small FBSD sysctl(3) interface for Lua 5.3
lua-zlib:lua53 Simple streaming interface to Zlib for Lua 5.3
lutok:standard Lightweight C++ API for Lua