Re: math libraries for Lua

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2017-05-12 11:27 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>:
> 2017-05-11 18:23 GMT+02:00 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
>> *  One, biased, starting point are my own libraries:
>>    http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/
>>    Are they any good?
>
> They are very good. I use:
>
>    complex mathx xml ltokenp
>
> and I have srlua downloaded in case I need it (not yet, so far).
>
> Not all mathematical, of course, but they are good models to follow
> when building one's own. The documentation is sparse but adequate
> for people that have enough skills to adapt the Makefiles to their own
> installation.

Having been re-alerted to then, I downloaded some and tried
to build them and found out al over again that editing the Makefile
is not 100% straightforward.

Now if those modules had a rockspec, "luarocks make ROCKSPEC"
would know where to find lua and whether -fPIC is necessary on my
system.