Exercise Setting up LuaRocks within LDT

  • The Lua Development Tools (LDT) is the Eclipse environment for Lua
  • There are a number of steps required to setup a LuaRock with LDT
    • A C compiler is required
    • Make is required
    • LuaRock executable must be downloaded and "make" run to install it
    • Environment variables for LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH must be set up
    • Mingw should be installed on a Windows computer (makes it easier)
    • A version of Lua interpreter must be installed
    • The appropriate LuaRoak must be downloaded and installed using LuaRocks executable
    • LDT must be configured with a new interpreter and an Execution Environment

The following PDF is a walk through of this process that installs LuaRocks and LuaSockets

References on Software used for Lua and C