Re: How to setup working LUA environment under Ubuntu?

[Michal Kolodziejczyk <miko@...>]

On 12.12.2009 09:15, steve donovan wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Matthew M. Burke <matthew@bluedino.net> wrote:
>> Some of those things are hard to compile even for us non-casual users---or
>> maybe I overestimate myself :P
> 
> Oh, we can _do_ it, but it's an hour of our lives forever gone.  It's
> usually the GUI frameworks, like lua-gnome is very tricky, totally
> dependent on a particular Debian setup, IUP made me reach for Synaptic

FYI: I have created a lua-gnome package for ArchLinux. The only "magic"
is that the debian uses libffi library from other source than many other
distros, so you have to make libffi package for your distro (getting it
from svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk/libffi).

Regards,
miko