Re: Building Lua 5.3 from Lua.org on FreeBSD

[jungle boogie <jungleboogie0@...>]

On 07/22/2017 05:13 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> The freebsd target was added in Lua 5.1.2 released in 2007. It has
> remained essentially the same since then. At that time we did test it on
> arbornet, a free shell service that is no longer available. Currently,
> we don't have access to FreeBSD to test it, though. We rely on feedback
> from the users of the various platforms. We haven't had a complaint
> about FreeBSD and other targets at all.
>
> For the record, does the freebsd target work on other FreeBSD systems?

While Digital Ocean isn't free, it's a very inexpensive option to test 
build Lua on FreeBSD: https://www.digitalocean.com

It looks like you would need to 'pkg add devel/libedit' then download 
the Lua53 tarball. Clang is in base so you wouldn't need to installer a 
compiler.