Lua Binaries

Overview

LuaBinaries is a distribution of the Lua libraries and executables compiled for several platforms.

This distribution offers a standard set of Lua libraries for the available platforms that can be used in any project that wants to be compatible with Tecgraf/PUC-Rio products and Kepler Project components. The LuaForge resources are also offered as an additional help.

LuaBinaries is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.

Motivation

Since Lua offers no standard set of libraries, many projects and teams have to build their own version of the Lua libraries and this can create binary incompatibilities among the resulting products.

Tecgraf/PUC-Rio and Kepler Project teams have a lot of shared products, so it made no sense to keep maintaining two (incompatible) sets of Lua libraries in parallel. While it would be nice to have a single standard for the whole Lua community, that is still not the reality. So both teams merged their requirements and now use a common set of files. Those files are called LuaBinaries and are available here for other Lua developers that want to use them.

Using a common set of libraries has some advantages for the developer:

Easier interoperability with other products based on LuaBinaries
Faster setup time for new Lua developers

If you need to recompile from sources and would like to ensure LuaBinaries compatibility, use the source package available at the LuaBinaries Download with no modifications. In fact the only change from the Lua.org package is the name of library and executable that use "luaXX" instead of "lua", where XX is the version number.

History

Lua 5.1.3 - Release 1
Removed Premake generated makefiles and renamed standard Makefiles from Makefile.std to Makefile. Updated Lua icon with more size and bpp combinations. Added Windows executable that is not a console application. Executable in Windows now uses VC8 (VS2005) run time library (MSVCR80.DLL).

Lua 5.1.2 - Release 1
Added a dll proxy called "lua51.dll" in the dll packages. It can be used to replace other "lua51.dll" previously released. It will simply forward calls to the "lua5.1.dll". There is no compiled source code involved in the forwarding.

Lua 5.1.1 - "luac5.1.exe" updated in the current zip to fix a problem with the "-l" parameter.

Lua 5.1.1 - Release 1
Lua 5.0.3 - Release 1
"luac5*.exe" and "lua5*.exe" in Windows now contain support for command line globing (so you can use "lua5.1 *.lua").
Each binary package has less sub-directories. Packages for Windows are in "zip" format.
The source code package includes makefiles to build the same binaries as LuaBinaries. Also has IDE projects for Visual C++ 6, 7 and 8.

Lua 5.1 - Release 1
File names now use the suffix "5.1" instead of "51".

Lua 5.1 - Beta 1
Based on Lua 5.1 beta released on 18/Nov/2005.

Lua 5.0.2 - Release 2
There are some important changes, see the Release 2 documentation.
LuaBinaries Release 1 and Release 2 for Lua 5.0.2 are incompatible.

Lua 5.0.2 - Release 1
Lua 4.0.1 - Release 1
Lua 3.2.2 - Release 1
All binaries are based on internal Tecgraf binaries.

Credits

The binaries are built and maintained by Antonio Scuri from Tecgraf. The project was designed by André Carregal and Antonio Scuri with contributions from Danilo Tuler and Diego Nehab. We also receive valuable colaborations from Mike Pall, David Burgess, Fabio Mascarenhas and Tomas Guisasola.

Contact us

For more information please contact us. Comments are welcome!