lua-host

Constants about host os/arch/bits/endian for Lua.

Usage

luarocks install host

local host = require('host')
print(host.os)
print(host.arch)
print(host.bits)
print(host.endian)

host.os:

• 'Windows'
• 'Linux'
• 'OSX'
• 'BSD'
• 'POSIX'
• 'Other'

host.arch:

• 'x86'
• 'x64'
• 'arm'
• 'arm64'
• 'ppc64le'
• 'ppc64'
• 'ppc'
• 'mipsel'
• 'mips'

host.bits:

• 32
• 64

host.endian:

• 'little'
• 'big'

Thanks

The source file lj_arch.h is doing the main host detecting job at the compile time. And it's taken form the LuaJIT version 2.1.0 beta2 code.

Thanks the LuaJIT authors and contributors.