Lua environment installation
Install on Linux system
It is very easy to install Lua on Linux & Mac. You only need to download thesource package and decompress and compile it on the terminal. Version 5.3.0 is used for installation in this article:
curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
cd lua-5.3.0
make linux test
make install
Install on Mac OS X system
curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
cd lua-5.3.0
make macosx test
make install
Next, let’s create a HelloWorld.lua file, the code is as follows: