Building a statically linked copy of Lua

[Matthew Frazier <leafstormrush@...>]

Hi, everyone. I have been doing some research on the possibility of 
rewriting my system's init scripts in Lua (because I think it could do a 
way better job than shell). It seems to me that it would be best to have 
a statically-linked copy of Lua as /bin/lua-static to avoid 
complications when booting, with luaposix (and maybe some other stuff) 
built in. However, I have practically zero experience with building 
stuff from source besides the standard "./configure; make && make 
install". So, a few questions:

- How would I build a statically-linked Lua interpreter binary?

- How could I build a library (in this case, luaposix) into the 
interpreter such that it could be required without loading the extra .so?

- Would it still be possible to load shared libraries from such an 
executable, or would I have to build everything into it?

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Thanks, Matthew Frazier