undefined symbol: luaL_checknumber in lua socket library

[Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@...>]

Hi all,

trying to get the luasocket library working under linux.

here's a snippet of .bash_profile:
# start snip
# for luasocket to work
LUA_ROOT=/usr/local/lib
LUA_INIT="@$LUA_ROOT/compat-5.1.lua"
LUA_PATH="$LUA_ROOT/?.lua;?.lua"
LUA_CPATH="$LUA_ROOT/?.so;?.so"

export LUA_PATH LUA_INIT LUA_CPATH
# end snip

when trying to load the library using require, i get this error:

-- error start
eyan@tanis:$ lua
Lua 5.0.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2004 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio
> require("socket")
/usr/local/lib/compat-5.1.lua:66: /usr/local/lib/lsocket.so: undefined
symbol: luaL_checknumber
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function `assert'
        /usr/local/lib/compat-5.1.lua:66: in function `require'
        /usr/local/lib/socket.lua:13: in function `f'
        /usr/local/lib/compat-5.1.lua:77: in function `require'
        stdin:1: in main chunk
        [C]: ?
-- error end

my config file for compiling lua is very standard. i just uncommented
the two loadable library switches:
LOADLIB= -DUSE_DLOPEN=1
DLLIB= -ldl

that's it. been going in circles to figure this out.
-- 
kind regards,
eyan

http://www.eyan.org