This is a tutorial on how to setup Lua 5.1.5.
Step 1
- Search for
Edit the system environment variables
orenvironment
for short and open the panel with the corresponding name.
Step 2
- Open the Advanced tab and click on Environment Variables at the bottom.
Step 3
- Under the System section, open the Path tab by double clicking on it.
Step 4
- Add the location of where you want to install Lua by pressing New, in my case I will install it in
C:/Program Files/lua
so I will write that at the new text box.
Step 5
- Exit out of all the windows by pressing OK (don't exit out by X otherwise it won't save).
Step 6
- Download the Lua rar file which can be found here.
Step 7
- Open the location of choice (mine is
C:/Program Files
) and put the Lua rar file there and extract it. You should be left with a folder namedlua
inside, do not rename it, otherwise you will need to change the variable which Lua was saved under in the system environment variables.
Step 8
- You're done! This is a bonus step just to run some tests but you don't have to if you don't want to.
- Open the command prompt and type
lua
. If your command prompt looks like the picture below then you're good and you can run some experiments to see if everything is working fine.