Re: Creating Lua for WireShark - Need a Shared Object

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Russell Haley once stated:
>> Hi,
>>
>> TLDR: does anyone have an src Makefile that builds a shared object in
>> 5.1.5 that I can use on Ubuntu?
>>
>> I have a Ubuntu VM that doesn't have internet but I do have xrdp
>> access. The user that set it up manually built wireshark 2.0.2 but
>> forgot to build lua. Other similar installations here use lua 5.1.5
>> from apt, so I've downloaded 5.1.5 and built it. The configure finds
>> my lua installation but didn't find the .so and then I remembered
>> there is no liblua53.so in the default Makefile.
>>
>> I'm not even going to bother posting my feeble attempts.
>
>   I think the following Makefile will work for Ubuntu.  I created it in the
> lua-5.3/src directory and named it "Makefile.ubuntu".  Then run from the
> lua-5.3/src directory:
>
>         GenericUnixPrompt% make -f Makefile.ubuntu clean
>         GenericUnixPrompt% make -f Makefile.ubuntu
>
> and you should have a liblua53.so in the directory.  You can copy it where
> you need, or you could do:
>
>         GenericUnixPrompt% su make -f Makefile.ubuntu install libdir=/path/to/whereever
>
>   -spc (It follows the GNU Makefile convention, as far as I can tell)
>
> INSTALL         = /usr/bin/install
> INSTALL_PROGRAM = $(INSTALL)
>
> prefix         = /usr/local
> exec_prefix    = $(prefix)
> libdir         = $(exec_prefix)/lib
>
> .PHONY: all install uninstall clean
>
> CC = gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
> CFLAGS = -fPIC -shared -g -DLUA_USE_LINUX
>
> %.so :
>         $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $^
>
> liblua53.so : lapi.o lcode.o lctype.o ldebug.o ldo.o ldump.o lfunc.o lgc.o llex.o \
>                 lmem.o lobject.o lopcodes.o lparser.o lstate.o lstring.o ltable.o \
>                 ltm.o lundump.o lvm.o lzio.o    \
>                 lauxlib.o lbaselib.o lbitlib.o lcorolib.o ldblib.o liolib.o \
>                 lmathlib.o loslib.o lstrlib.o ltablib.o lutf8lib.o loadlib.o linit.o
>
> install: liblua53.so
>         $(INSTALL) -d $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
>         $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) liblua53.so $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
>
> uninstall:
>         $(RM) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/liblua53.so
>
> clean:
>         $(RM) liblua53.so *.o
>
>
This is awesome, I can put it in the Jira issue. Thanks!

Russ