Libraries And Bindings

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Please don't mark an entry with an open-ended version (e.g. "5.x"), as it will likely be incorrect the moment a new Lua version is released.

GUI toolkits and graphics

• [wxLua] (5.1) - [wxWidgets] bindings for Lua 5.1. wxLua project provides its own IDE with a GUI debugger, a binding generator and a "wx" module for wxWidgets. The IDE is written in wxLua. wxWidgets provides native look-and-feel on Windows, Unix and Macintosh platforms wrapping the underlying toolkit (respectively win32 API, GTK+ 2.0 or Motif or X11, and Carbon API). Well-maintained.
• [IUP] (5.0, 5.1) - GUI toolkit for Windows and Motif with Lua 5 bindings. The IUP secondary libraries with additional controls need the [CD] graphics library and the [IM] Imaging library. All libraries are build using the [Tecmake] tool. All secondary libraries, CD and IM have bindings to Lua 5.
• [Doris] (5.0) - is an OpenGL and GLUI binding.
• [luaglut] (5.0/5.1) - OpenGL and GLUT bindings.
• [LuaGL] (5.0) - (Yet Another) OpenGL binding. No makefile or documentation yet.
• [LuaGApp] (5.0) - [GraphApp] binding for Lua.
• [GTK-server] (5.0/5.1) - GTK binding using the GTK-server. Can use GTK1.x, GTK2.x or XForms. Wrapper to make the interface more friendly is [here] - needs gtk-server 2.1.5.
• [FXLua] (5.0) - [Fox GUI toolkit] binding.
• [lua_qt] (5.1) - Qt bindings for Lua 5. Still on early stages (missing some objects, building process not fully tested), but quite usable.
• [lua-gtk] (5.1) - complete GTK2 bindings for Lua, still alpha but useable.
• LuaModuleLuaSdl (4.0, 5.0) - bindings of the Simple DirectMedia? Layer to Lua-4.0; patches for 5.0 See also [SDL].
• [IrrLua] (5.0/5.1) - [Irrlicht] bindings for Lua.
• [Lua-GD] (5.1) - a [GD Graphics Library] binding for Lua.
• [LuaGRAPH] (5.0, 5.1) - A library to create, manipulate, layout and render graphs. Based on the [GRAPHVIZ] library from AT&T.
• [ldislin] (5.1) - A Lua wrapper for the [DISLIN] plotting and widgets library from MPS.
• BlitzLua (5.1.2) - a Lua runtime environment written in BlitzMAX with access to many BlitzMAX/MaxGUI modules (including 2D and 3D graphics, sound and networking) (note: the link currently points into this wiki (which is usually a bad idea in this list) but this will change as soon as the package has its own web site)
• [Lua-Cairo] (5.1.2) - A [Cairo Graphics Library] binding for Lua. (There are similar works at http://luaforge.net/projects/luacairo/ and http://imago.functionalfuture.com/)
• [G&RT] (5.1) - A toolkit for geometry and rendering. Contains a module for a Lua binding of the [RenderMan Interface].
• [lua-imlib2] (5.1) - A binding to the imlib2 image manipulation library.
• [lgui] (5.1) - GTK+2 binding.
• [ldraw] (5.1) - Another Cairo Graphics library binding. Can be used alone or with with lgui.

Networking

• [LuaBER] (5.0) - ASN.1 BER.
• [LuaSocket] (5.0, 5.1) - a library for socket programming in Lua.
• [LuaSSL] (5.0) - Secure Socket Layer library for secure socket programming in Lua 5.0.
• [LuaSys] (5.1) - yet another system library for Lua. (Also contains: 1) sockets; 2) event notification mechanism; 3) win32 stuff: registry, event, service; 4) serial communication).
• [luaspread] (5.1) - a Lua interface to the Spread Group Communication System.
• [luadjbdns] (5.1) - a Lua interface to the djbdns and skadns DNS client libraries.
• [Copas] (5.0) - a dispatcher based on coroutines and LuaSocket? that can be used by request/response servers.
• [luaCURL] (5.0, 5.1) - luaCURL is a libCURL binding to Lua.
• [lua-httpd] - A simple networking binding and sample webserver implmented using it. (5.0)
• [dsas] (5.1) - A library to run Lua code at server side
• [LuaSNMP] (5.0, 5.1) - A library for Simple Network Management (SNMP) programming in Lua. Based on the net-snmp library.
• [LuaEvent] (5.1) - A binding to libevent, offers a coroutine dispatcher a-la Copas, will offer more later

XML and Web

• [cgi.lua] (5.0) - the bare minimum necessary to do CGI, or maybe a little less. Versions for Lua 4.0 and 5.0.
• [HTK] (5.0) - a library of Lua constructors for HTML elements.
• [CGILua] (5.0) - a tool for creating dynamic HTML pages and manipulating input data from forms using an Apache 2 module, Fast-CGI or traditional CGI.
• [LuaExpat] (5.0) - a Lua 5.0 expat binding.
• [LuaSOAP] (5.0) - a Lua 5.0 library to ease the use of SOAP.
• [LuaXMLRPC] (5.0) - a Lua 5.0 library to make remote procedure calls using XML-RPC.
• [Nanoki] (5.1) - a full-featured wiki and HTTP/1.1 engine.
• [Xavante] (5.0) - a Lua Web server (HTTP 1.1) that handles requests with Copas and uses CGILua 5.0 as the native template engine.
• [Lua HTML Tidy] (5.0) - a Lua 5.0 HTML Tidy binding.
• [LuaXML] (5.1) - a lean yet complete module for the direct mapping between XML data and Lua tables.
• [lua-xmlreader] (5.1) - An implementation of the XmlReader API using libxml2.

Text processing

• [Gel] (5.0) Gel: [Gema] and Lua in a colloidal solution. Pattern matching over multiple lines, context sensitive matching and many other powerful mechanisms to transform text files.
• [lascii85] (5.0) - an ASCII85 library for Lua.
• [lrexlib] (5.1) - a POSIX and Perl (PCRE) regular expression library for Lua.
• [LPeg] (5.1) - a New Pattern-Matching Library for Lua. LpegRecipes
• [MixLua] (5.1) - an onload preprocessor for lua files and allow mixing of Lua code with other data

Database access

• [lgdbm] (5.0) - a gdbm binding for Lua 5.
• [LuaSQL] (5.0) - A generic Lua 5.0 interface to DBMS's (ODBC, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, JDBC and PostgreSQL).
• [LuaBDB] (5.0) - Berkeley DB interface for Lua 5.
• [luacdb] (5.1) - a Lua interface to Dan Bernstein's cdb.
• [luatdb] (5.1) - a Lua interface to Andrew Tridgell's tdb.
• [LuaISIS] (5.0) - some CDS/ISIS features.
• [luasqlite] (5.0, 5.1) - a Lua interface to work with SQLite 2/3 databases.
• [LuaLDAP] (5.0) - A Lua 5.0 interface to the OpenLDAP library.
• [LuaCodeBase] (5.0.2) - a Lua interface to Sequiter's CodeBase?.
• [Lua-Sqlite3] (5.0) - Sqlite 3 for Lua. Two layer architecture, multiple interfaces, coroutines, iterators and much more.
• [Lua-wxSQLite3] (5.1) - A Lua interface to Ulrich Telle's wxSQLite3 library
• [lua-tinycdb] (5.1) - a Lua interface to Michael Tokarev's tinycdb.

Calling interfaces

• [The Lua 5.1 Reference Manual: The Application Program Interface] (5.1) describes Lua's native C API for calling Lua from C and vice-versa.
• [LuaCom] (5.0)(can be adapted to 5.1) - calling COM objects from Lua and implementing COM objects in Lua.
• [OiL] (5.1) - ORB in Lua (CORBA)
• LuaInterface (5.1) - calling Microsoft .NET CLR objects from Lua.
• [Lua-Ada] (5.0) (link broken) - Lua binding to Ada 95.
• [LuaJava] (5.1) - calling Lua from Java and vice-versa.
• [LuaPascal] (5.0) - calling Lua from Delphi/Pascal.
• LuaDelphi (5.1.1) - calling Lua from Delphi/Pascal
• [LuaObjCBridge] (5.0) - calling Lua from Objective-C and vice-versa (MacOS X Cocoa).
• [RubyLuaBridge] (5.1) - calling Lua from Ruby (calling Ruby from Lua is planned)
• [rub-lua5] (5.0) - calling Lua from Ruby.
• [Lunatic Python] (5.0) - calling Lua from Python and vice-versa. See LunaticPython on 5.1.
• [Calling Perl from Lua] (5.1) - calling Perl from Lua
• [Lux] (4.0) - calling Lua from Tcl, Python, Perl and Ruby.
• [Inline-Lua] (5.1) - calling Lua from Perl (inline)
• [Alien] (5.1) - Alien, an FFI to call C functions directly from Lua scripts

Math

• [lbc] (5.0) - a big-number library for Lua.
• [ldecNumber] (5.1) - wrapper for IBM decNumber; implements General Decimal Arithmetic standard IEEE 754r. Full control over rounding modes and working precision.
• [lmapm] (5.0) - an arbitrary precision library that contains transcendental functions.
• [numeric lua] (5.1) - a numeric package for Lua with support for complex numbers, multidimensional matrices, random number generation, and special functions. Most of the routines are wrappers for the Netlib libraries.
• [LGMP] (5.1) - use the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library (GMP) from Lua.

Miscellaneous

• [stdlib] (5.1) - a collection of Lua modules for general programming. (Follow the CVS link to browse the source files. Project summary shows "0 commits" because the repository was imported from SourceForge.)
• [Coco] (5.1) - true C coroutines for Lua (yield from anywhere).
• [vxLuaGlue] - a [VxWorks] to Lua binding (glue layer) via the VxWorks symbol table.
• [Pluto] (5.0.2, 5.1) - heavy-duty persistence for Lua.
• [lalarm] (5.0) - an alarm library for Lua based on signal and SIGALRM.
• [lmd5] (5.0) - an MD5/SHA1 digest library for Lua.
• [md5] - a cryptographic library for Lua based on the MD5 message-digest algorithm.
• [lpack] (5.0) - a library for packing and unpacking binary data.
• [struct] (5.0) - another library for packing and unpacking binary data.
• [lpdf] (5.0) - a library for generating PDF files based on PDFlib.
• [lposix] (5.0) - a POSIX library for Lua.
• [ltokens] (5.0) - a library for lexical analysis of Lua code, based on the Lua lexer.
• [bitlib] (5.0/5.1) - a library for bitwise logical operations in Lua.
• [luabarcode] (5.0) - a barcode library for Lua (I2of5 barcodes).
• [LuaThread] (5.0) - Multi-threading support and library for Lua.
• [lzlib/lgzip] (5.1) - a Lua 5 interface to work with gzip files, based on liolib.c - uses zlib library.
• [LuaZip] (5.0) - a lightweight Lua extension library used to read files stored inside zip files.
• [LUSTI] (5.0) - Lua binding for Universal Search Tree Interface (more for learning Lua with C).
• [LuaLogging] (5.0) - A simple API to use logging features in Lua.
• [VEnv] (5.0) - Provides a way to execute a Lua function in a separate environment, protecting the original one.
• [luaunit] (5.0) - A unit testing framework for lua
• [lunit] (5.1) - Another unit testing framework for Lua with test runner plugin support
• [doctest] (5.1) - a testing module that strives to integrate documentation and testing by example. Idea from python-doctest.
• [Luazu] (5.0) - A binary module providing an interface to the Kudzu hardware detection library under Linux.
• [LuaMem] (5.0) - struct, array, call cfunction, file map.
• [LuaMHash] (5.0) - [mhash] library binding.
• [lua-iconv] (5.0/5.1) - bindings to the [iconv] library.
• [lua-crypt] (5.0) - An one-function library that provides the POSIX crypt() function for Lua
• [LuaFileSystem] (5.1) - a library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems.
• [Compat-5.1] (5.0) - simulates the Lua 5.1 package model under Lua 5.0 so you can use 5.1 packages.
• [lcurses] (5.0) (link broken) - Curses (ncurses/pdcurses) terminal manipulation
• [lua-fs] (5.0) - A filesystem primitive extension library for Lua.
• [LuaBit] (5.0/5.1) - a bitwise operation lib totally written in Lua. The bitwise operations supported are: not, and, or, xor, right shift and left shift.
• [Lua-eSpeak] (5.1) - a binding to the [eSpeak] speech synthesis engine.
• [C/Invoke for Lua] (5.1) - Use [C/Invoke] from Lua to call C libraries (DLLs, .so files) directly, like Microsoft's P/Invoke and Python's ctypes.
• [LuaTask] (5.1) - Multiple concurrent, independent Lua threads with message passing. Efficient multithreading without the mutexes!
• [webnet77] (5.1) library for IP to country lookup
• [luainotify] (5.1) - a Lua interface to the Linux inotify subsystem.