Lua environment installation

Installation on Linux systems

Linux & Install Lua installed on Mac is very simple, just download the source package to compile and decompression in the terminal, it uses the 5.3.0 version is installed:

curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
cd lua-5.3.0
make linux test
make install

Installation on Mac OS X systems

curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
cd lua-5.3.0
make macosx test
make install

print("Hello World!")

Execute the following command:

$ lua HelloWorld.lua

The output is:

Hello World!

Lua installation on Window system

You can use a lower window called "SciTE" lua IDE environment to execute the program, download address is:

• Download site: LuaForWindows_v5.1.4-46.exe
• Github Download: https://github.com/rjpcomputing/luaforwindows/releases
• Google Code Download: https://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/downloads/list

Lua can write a program in this environment after double-click to install and run.

You can also use Lua official recommended method LuaDist: http://luadist.org/