Lua Addons Archive

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Libraries and bindings

GUI toolkits and graphics

• [tklua] (3.0) - a Tk binding for Lua. Supports OpenGL canvas. Not maintained.
• [Lua Fltk] (4.0) - a Fltk binding for Lua 4.0. Not maintained.
• [tklua 4.0a1] (4.0) - tkLua for Lua 4.0. Not maintained.
• [gllua] (3.1) - an OpenGL binding for Lua.

Networking

• [Luasock] (3.0) - a library for socket programming in Lua.
• [luacurl] (4.0) - a libcurl binding for Lua 4.0.

XML and Web

• [Aguia] (4.0) - a Lua module for Apache.
• [LuaXML] (4.0) - an XML parser in Lua. Link broken
• [Lua XML-RPC] (4.0) - a client/server implementation of XML-RPC for Lua.
• [lxp] (4.0) - an expat binding for Lua. (expat is an XML parser toolkit.)
• [mod_lua] (4.0) - a Lua module for Apache 1.3.
• [Yindo] (old) - Lua implemented as an interactive OpenGL browser plugin (quite outdated) - original web site no longer exists

Databases

• [luatdbm] (4.0) - a tdbm(transactional dbm) binding for Lua 4.0.
• [gdbm] (4.0) - a gdbm binding for Lua.
• [LuaSimdb] (4.0) - Lua interface for SimpleDB (cross-platform db connectivity API a drivers)
• [Lua-SQLite] (4.0) - Lua interface to SQLite database manager.
• [MyLua] - a patch to MySQL that allows users to write procedures in Lua.

Calling interfaces

• LuaDeclare (4.0) - a Lua module that provides a function binding mechanism for arbitrary win32 dynamic libraries.
• [LuaJava] (3.1) - a scripting tool for Java.
• [LuaJava] (4.0) - bleeding-edge port to the Lua 4.0 API, using the Lua3 compatibility layer.
• [Lua-ObjectiveC] (4.0) - transparent messaging system between Lua and Objective-C.
• [LuaOrb] (3.2) - a CORBA binding for Lua.
• [Lua-RPC] (4.0) - a library for simple remote procedure calling.

Miscellaneous

• [pcre] (4.0) - a Lua 4.0.1 interface to the PCRE regular expression library.
• [loadlib] (3) - dynamic library loading facilities for Lua 3. [Lua Yada] contains [a version of loadlib] for Lua 4.0. [Titmouse] also contains version of loadlib() independentally developed for Win32 and Linux.
• [ALua] - a Lua library for distributed programming.
• [bclib] (4.0) - a big-number library for Lua.
• [mapmlib] (4.0) - An arbitrary precision library that contains transcendental functions.
• [poslib] (4.0) - a POSIX library for Lua.
• [poslib] (3.2) - a POSIX library for Lua.
• [lreflib] (4.0) - This library exposes the Lua API functions lua_ref, lua_getref, lua_unref, lua_settag (for userdata) and lua_settagmethod (for "gc" events) to Lua programs, allowing for example a Lua program to have garbage-collectable tables.
• [luapickle] (4.0) - a serialization library in Lua.
• [Lua-SFL] (4.0) - Lua-SFL is an interface to the SFL library from IMATIX with lots of functions to be used in general programing tasks.

Development environments

• [Titmouse] (4.0) - integrated editor and debugger for Lua for Windows (Linux version under development).
• [Stella] (4.0) - a Lua development environment for Mac OS.
• [LuaSpace] (3.1) - an environment for configuring and reconfiguring component-based applications.
• [LuaDev] (4.0) - a graphical editor and debugger for gllua for Mac OS X.
• [EDELua] (3.2) - an embeddable development environment.
• [LuaCmd] (3.2) - an environment for programmers.
• [Ldb] (3.1) - a debugger for Lua.
• [Web Lua] (4.0) - A web page where you can execute and compile Lua scripts through lua, luac and lua2c online.

Code wrappers

• [OR_Lua] (4.0) - a C++ Lua wrapper using STL-like iterators and virtual class.
• [Glua] (4.0) - a set of C macros and functions to assist hand-written Lua/C interfaces.
• [Lua Plugin] (4.0) - a REALbasic plugin that wraps Lua.
• [Script] (4.0) - a C++ Lua wrapper.
• [Luna] (4.0) - a C++ template class that binds C++ classes to Lua 4.0, or below
• [lua3] (3.2/4.0) - an emulation of Lua 3.2 API on top of Lua 4.0 API.
• [elua] (4.0) - an eiffel Lua library (4.0) wrapper by Julien Rouzieres.
• [SWIGLua] (3.2) - a SWIG module for Lua.
• [Lua-ffi] (4.0) - a tool for calling arbitrary C functions from the Lua interpreter. Link broken

Tools

• [LuaDoc] (4.0) - a tool for automatic code documentation.
• [CGILua] (3.2) - a tool for building CGI scripts with Lua.

Documentation

• [LuaHelp] (4.0) - Lua library reference, converted to lua data structures (includes interactive help support and help for other lua libraries)
• [Lua 4 Quick Reference] (4.0) - A Lua 4 reference booklet (SXW and PDF formats) by Kein-Hong Man.
• [Introductory programming manual] (3.1), in Portuguese.

Distributions

• [Lua Yada] (4.0) - scripts for packing Lua for Debian.
• [DJGPP Lua] (4.0) - Lua for DJGPP.
• [Plua] (4.0) - Lua for the Palm.
• [OS/2] (4.0) - Lua 4.0 for OS/2.
• [Lua 4 for EPOC] (4.0) - Lua 4.0.1 for Symbian OS v1-5.
• [BeOS] (4.0) - Lua 4.0 for BeOS.
• [c4lua] (4.0) - Lua 4.0 binary with Codebase interface.
• [lua.spec] (3.2) - a spec file for building Lua 3.2 RPMs.
• [LuaMT] (3.1) - a modified version of Lua 3.1 to support multithreading with POSIX threads. Made obsolete by Lua 4.1.
• [Lua Multi State] (3.2) - a modified version of Lua 3.2 that uses no global variables. Made obsolete by Lua 4.0.
• [LuaState] - a modified version of Lua 4.1 (alpha) that supports Unicode strings, Win32 multithreading, unified methods, and more.
• [Lunacy] (3.2) - precompiled Windows DLL for Lua 3.2, Delphi import unit headers, and other miscellaneous tidbits. Link broken