lua-posix
Port variant lua55
Summary POSIX API bindings for Lua 5.5
Package version 36.3
Homepage https://github.com/luaposix/luaposix
Keywords devel
Maintainer Michael Reim
License MIT
Other variants lua52 | lua53 | lua54
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Last modified 24 JAN 2026, 14:52:53 UTC
Port created 08 FEB 2020, 13:29:08 UTC
Subpackage Descriptions
single POSIX binding for Lua and LuaJIT. It simply binds to C APIs on the underlying OS and thus won't work on non-POSIX systems. It does however try to detect the level of POSIX conformance of the OS and binds only to available APIs.
Configuration Switches (platform-specific settings discarded)
LUA52 OFF Build with Lua 5.2 LUA53 OFF Build with Lua 5.3 LUA54 OFF Build with Lua 5.4 LUA55 ON Build with Lua 5.5
Package Dependencies by Type
Build (only) lua55:dev:std
lua55:tools:std
Build and Runtime lua55:primary:std
Runtime (only) lua-stdlib-normalize:single:lua55
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main mirror://GITHUB/luaposix:luaposix:v36.3
Distribution File Information
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