Re: Newbie questions about LuaSocket

[Florian Berger <fberger@...>]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:

> On Feb 13, 2004 at 11:59 +0200, Florian Berger wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the help! With luac and bin2c combination I managed to compile
> > LuaSocket library with -DLUASOCKET_COMPILED flag. But I still get
> > libluasocket.a file instead of libluasocket.so. I tried to make a dynamic
> > libary using command "make dyn" but I get following error:
>
> If you are just interested in getting a working luasocket, rather than
> learning the ins and outs of building .so's, you could try luacheia,
> http://luacheia.lua-users.org .  The last tarball release should work
> out of the box on any 32-bit Linux with "./configure && make install".
>
> --
> Thatcher Ulrich
> http://tulrich.com
>

Hi.

Thanks for the tip! I have a small question. In source distribution in
file readme.txt is following text:

> ...
> Other Platforms
> ---------------
> Build LuaCheia by first unpacking the source distribution, changing to
> the top directory of the distribution, and doing:
>    # ./configure
>    # make
>    # make install
> You should now have a luacheia5 interpreter executable, and a standard
> lua5 interpreter in /usr/local/bin, a set of standard Lua shared
> libraries in /usr/local/lib, and a set of LuaCheia modules in
> /usr/local/lib/luacheia5.

The problem is that I don't have any rights to put anything to /usr/local
directory. Can I somehow change the default installation directory?

Floru