How to install Lua 5 in Mac OS X Leopard

Open up terminal. Copy the link of the latest Lua version and download it:

cd /tmp
wget http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz

Extract and compile:

tar -xzvf lua-5.1.4.tar.gz
cd lua-5.1.4
make macosx

Test and install (if test goes through)

make test
sudo make install

And you’re done!

  1. Julien 4 months ago
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    Thanks for this! To the point. Works perfectly

  2. Walker 4 months ago
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    Worked wonderfully. Thank you!

  3. Natsuki 7 months ago
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    Thanks very much .it works well ,
    the problem is that textmate doesn’t hava a lua highlight support built-in ,
    anyhow I’ll fix it

  4. luk 8 months ago
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    Thank you very much! It worked great!

  5. Tofu about 1 year ago
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    Thank you worked perfectly! (I had wget already from darwinports)

  6. NormB about 1 year ago
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    wget isn’t installed on leopard by default.

    Found this little tidbit:

    echo ‘alias wget=”curl -O”‘ >> ~/.bash_profile

    Worked for me

  7. Name about 1 year ago
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    shit ain’t workin’