Re: Raspberry Pi and Lua

[Peter Drahoš <drahosp@...>]

On Mar 8, 2012, at 14:29 , steve donovan wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
> <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Sure. The question then is what are the batteries needed for Raspberry Pi.
> 
> My 'Lua for Linux" experiment attempted to give a 'Lua for Windows'
> experience, with SciTE for editing (and debugging) plus the 'usual
> suspects'.  If I was doing it now it would involve the person grabbing
> LuaRocks (with apt-get or yum) and then doing
> 
> $ sudo luarocks install batteries
> 
> where 'batteries' is a meta-package that pulls in all the common packages.[1]
Once a linux kernel is running I can use LuaDist to build most Lua For Windows packages. See the ongoing Batteries sub project in the LuaDist repo[1]. This really is no issue as we build all dependencies and can cross-compile for the platform.

pd

[1] https://github.com/LuaDist/batteries