lua

A powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language

Run the following Vcpkg command to install the port.

vcpkg install lua

lua provides CMake integration for the C library:

find_package(Lua REQUIRED)

target_include_directories(main PRIVATE ${LUA_INCLUDE_DIR})

target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE ${LUA_LIBRARIES})

lua[cpp] provides a C++ library with exception handling:

find_package(unofficial-lua)

target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE unofficial::lua::lua-cpp)

• lua[cpp]≥v5.3.5-2#0

  All

  Builds Lua for C++ linkage

• lua[tools]≥v5.4.3#1

  !ios

  Builds Lua compiler and interpreter

  Feature Dependencies

  • readline-unix

    !windows

• vcpkg-cmake

  All
• vcpkg-cmake-config

  All