4.2.1. 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
4.2.2. 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: