Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/05/21/22:33:30
Hello.
I am pleased to announce that Lua 4.0 is now available for DJGPP
users.
What is Lua?
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Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for
extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software.
Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description
constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua
is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic
memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for
configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
For more information about Lua, you can visit its home page at:
<http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/about.html>.
Packages
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Lua for DJGPP has been split into three packages: source,
documentation and pre-compiled binaries. For the meantime you can
get them at the following URLS:
Source:
http://www.geocities.com/n_abing/packages/lua40s.zip
Documentation:
http://www.geocities.com/n_abing/packages/lua40d.zip
Binary:
http://www.geocities.com/n_abing/packages/lua40b.zip
The binary packages contains the Lua API and basic libraries (liblua
and lualib) as well as the byte-code compiler and interpreter (luac
and lua).
If you're new to Lua, you should also get the documentation package
as it contains the Lua reference manual and some example programs
written in Lua.
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