Re: Failing to build Lua 5.3.5 on Macbook

[Daryl Lee <daryl@...>]

Well, I think I have at least corraled the problem.  This laptop seems 
to have an old version (2008-ish) of Lua already, that I'd forgotten 
about.  I guess I need to start by cleaning that out.  Sorry for the 
interruption.

On 11/21/18 5:41 PM, Daryl Lee wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I have both an iMac and a Macbook pro laptop, both running Mojave (OS X 
> 10.14.1), both with XCode 10.1, both with command line tools (gcc 
> --version reports Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)).  Lua 
> 5.3.5 builds and runs nicely on the iMac, but fails on the Macbook, with 
> several linker errors, beginning with:
>
> gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Wextra -DLUA_COMPAT_5_2 -DLUA_USE_MACOSX    -c 
> -o lua.o lua.c
> gcc -std=gnu99 -o lua   lua.o liblua.a -lm -lreadline
> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>    "_tgetent", referenced from:
>        __rl_init_terminal_io in libreadline.a(terminal.o)
>    "_tgetflag", referenced from:
>        __rl_init_terminal_io in libreadline.a(terminal.o)
>    "_tgetnum", referenced from:
>        __rl_get_screen_size in libreadline.a(terminal.o)
> ...
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

--
Daryl Lee
All our discontents about what we want appeared to
me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we
have. -- Daniel Defoe