luarocks-build-extended

A fork of Luarocks built-in build system.

Specify "extended" as build type and "luarocks-build-extended" as dependency to use it (see example below).

• Support for compiling C++ sources, similar to luarocks-build-cpp. C++ files are detected by file extensions (.cpp, .cxx or .cc) For C++ compiling g++ is not used, gcc with stdc++ library is.
• Support for module specific variables (see also luarocks/luarocks#368 or luarocks/luarocks#367):
  • CFLAG_EXTRAS list of additional C compiler arguments
  • CXXFLAG_EXTRAS list of additional C++ compiler arguments
  • LIBFLAG_EXTRAS list of additional linker arguments
• New variable BUILD_DATE contains build date in ISO-8601 format.
• Support for external_dependencies with the ability to disable header search per platform, see also the example for installing LuaGL OpenGL binding.

Example rockspec

package = "name"
version = "0.1-1"
source = {
    url = "git://github.com/username/name.git"
}
description = {
    summary = "...",
    detailed = "...",
    homepage = "http://github.com/username/name",
    license = "MIT/X11"
}
dependencies = {
    "lua >= 5.1, < 5.3",
    "luarocks-build-extended"
}
build = {
    type = "extended",
    platforms = {
        macosx = {
            modules = {
                name = {
                    variables = {
                        LIBFLAG_EXTRAS = { 
                            "-framework", "Cocoa" 
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    modules = {
        name = {
            sources = {
                "name.cpp",
                "aux.cpp"
            },
            defines = { 
              "MY_BUILD_DATE=$(BUILD_DATE)"
            },
        }
    }
}

See also the real world example for installing Lua OpenGL binding.