Luarocks

Created: Dec 25, 2020 by Pradeep Gowda Updated: Oct 15, 2022 Tagged: lua

When you have multiple lua installations, installing libraries for one of those using luarocks:

luarocks --lua-dir=/usr/local/opt/lua@5.1 install say

To install into a custom location, use the --tree /dir/locn option

mkdir -p lenv
luarocks install --tree lenv fennel

Further exploration:

• Pinning versions with a lock file
• what is the equivalent of Python’s requirements.txt? – A rockspec. See Creating a rock