LuaPack

LuaPack packs Lua scripts together along with a Lua interpretor (Lua 5.4.3) and produces a standalone executable for Linux and Windows.

LuaPack runs on Linux.

LuaPack uses luastatic to generate a single executable.

No Lua interpretor needs to be installed. LuaPack downloads and compiles its own interpretor.

Installation

$ make install    # install luapack to ~/.local/bin

LuaPack is a single autonomous shell script. It does not need to be installed and can be copied anywhere you want.

Usage

Usage: luapack [-h] [-c] [-w] [-o OUTPUT] [-b BUILD_DIR] script(s)

Options:
    -h          show this help
    -c          clean and rebuild the Lua libraries
    -w          generate a Windows binary with mingw
    -o OUTPUT   set the name of the output executable
    -b DIR      set the name of the Lua build directory

The main script shall be the first one. Other scripts are libraries that can be loaded by the main script.

Examples

Linux executable

luapack main.lua lib1.lua lib2.lua -o linux_executable

Running linux_executable is equivalent to running lua main.lua.

Windows executable

luapack main.lua lib1.lua lib2.lua -w -o windows_executable.exe

Running windows_executable.exe is equivalent to running lua.exe main.lua.