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The Lua Language distribution [Archived] (@LuaDist)

LuaDist

Stars
4,825
Global Org. Rank 4,616 (Top 2 %)
Registered about 14 years ago
Most used languages

C
52.7 %

Lua
33.2 %

C++
6.0 %

Shell
5.4 %

CMake 1.1 %

Others 1.5 %
Location 🇸🇰 Slovakia
Country Total Rank 8
Country Ranking

CMake 1

Lua
1

C
2

Fortran
2

Shell
8

C++
12

Java
52

CSS
58

lua

The Lua programming language with CMake based build

luajit

LuaJIT is JIT compiler for the Lua language.

tcc

Small but fast C compiler. Supports ANSI C, most of the new ISO C99 standard, and many GNUC extensions, including inline assembly.

Repository

Repository of LuaDist modules available for installation using the luadist-git command line tool

toluapp

tolua++ is an extension of toLua, a tool to integrate C/Cpp code with Lua

libjpeg

Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software

srlua

A tool for building self-running Lua programs.

squish

Squish Lua libraries and apps into a single compact file.

iup

IUP is a portable toolkit for building graphical user interfaces.

luaxml

A minimal set of XML processing function in Lua, with simple mapping between XML and Lua tables

dkjson

dkjson is a module for encoding and decoding JSON data.

lpack

A library for packing and unpacking binary data. The library adds two functions to the string library: pack and unpack.

tolua

tolua is a tool that greatly simplifies the integration of C/C++ code with Lua.

libsqlite3

SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine

lpeg

scintilla

Scintilla is a free source code editing component.

lsqlite3

LuaSQLite 3 is a thin wrapper around the public domain SQLite3 database engine.

lzlib

Lua bindings to the ZLib compression library

gsl

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers.

wxlua

wxLua is a lua scripting language wrapper around the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI library. It consists of an executable for running standalone wxLua scripts and a library for extending C++ programs with a fast, small, fully embeddable scripting language

luasrcdiet

LuaSrcDiet - Compresses Lua source code by removing unnecessary characters.

libpng

Official PNG reference library

mapm

Mike's Arbitrary Precision Math Library

luabitop

Lua Bit Operations Module by Mile Pall

lua-signal

Lua support for ANSI C signals

libtiff

libiconv

POSIX library, which converts a sequence of characters from one codeset into a sequence of corresponding characters in another codeset.

luapretty

openssl

Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a general purpose cryptography library.

luacurl

LuaCURL is Lua 5.x compatible module providing Internet browsing capabilities based on the cURL library.

scite

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor

luadate

LuaDate is a Lua module for date and time calculation and retrieval using the Gregorian Calendar system.

libbsd

BSD functions common only on BSD systems, for portability to non-BSD systems.

slnunicode

A Unicode support library for Lua, developed for the Selene database project

luajava

LuaJava is a scripting tool for Java

unzip

Info-ZIP unzip utility

fcgi

FastCGI is simple because it is actually CGI with only a few extensions.

bzip2

bzip2 is a high compression ratio data compression library.

luaexpat

LuaExpat is a SAX (Simple API for XML) XML parser based on the Expat library

libpq

libpq is a connection library for PostgreSQL

lsocket

Simple and easy socket support for lua.

lua-uri

Lua module for manipulating URIs

libdevil

Developer's Image Library (DevIL) is a programmer's library to develop applications with very powerful image loading capabilities, yet is easy for a developer to learn and use.

luasql-mysql

Database connectivity for Lua - MySQL driver

wxwidgets

wxWidgets is a C++ multi-platform GUI toolkit.

luaglut

GLUT and OpenGL bindings for Lua

batteries

A meta package that provides batteries for the Lua language. Modeled after Lua for Windows distribution.

lrandom

A library for generating random numbers based on the Mersenne Twister, a pseudorandom number generating algorithm.

remdebug

Remote Debugger for the Lua programming language

classlib

A multiple-inheritance class library for Lua.

diluculum

Diluculum is a library that intends to make the coexistence of C++ and Lua more harmonious.

zip

Info-ZIP zip utility

luasql-sqlite3

Database connectivity for Lua - SQLite3 driver

onig

Oniguruma is a regular expressions library

bitlib

Tiny library for bitwise operations

lbc

A simple arbitrary precision library for Lua, based on code from GNU bc

sdl

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.

lpty

A simple facility for lua to control other programs via PTYs.

luaex

Implemenation of 'ex' API - portable os and io extension functions

libexpat

Expat is a C library for parsing XML

luabind

Luabind is a library that helps you create bindings between C++ and Lua.

loop

LOOP stands for Lua Object-Oriented Programming and is a set of packages for supporting different models of object-oriented programming in the Lua language

iup-examples

Examples for IUP. IUP is a portable toolkit for building graphical user interfaces.

diff

This module provides a small collection of functions for diffing text.

luametrics

freeglut

FreeGLUT is a free alternative GLUT library.

luagd

Lua bindings to the GD library

luadocer

luagl

A library that provides access to all of the OpenGL functionality from Lua.

cd

CD (Canvas Draw) is a platform-independent graphics library.

luatask

LuaTask - Multitasking support Library

qtlua

The QtLua library aims to make Qt4 applications scriptable using the Lua scripting language.

lbci

A bytecode inspector library for Lua 5.1. It allows you to look inside Lua functions from Lua.

regex

Henry Spencer's regular expressions library

lualibusb

Lua libusb binding

Binaries

Binary distributions for download purposes

libmysql

libmysql provides C interface library to connect to MySQL

lcms

LittleCMS is a CMM, a color management engine

luapi

LuaPi: Concurrent programming made simple

mixlua

A preprocessor for files including embedded Lua code

luamotif

Lua binding for OpenMotif

fontconfig

lbase64

A Base64 library for Lua

im

IM is a toolkit for Digital Imaging.

alt-getopt

Process application arguments the same way as getopt_long

lemock

Mock creation module intended for use together with a unit test framework such as lunit or lunity.

luuid

A library for UUID generation

lpc

Allows Lua scripts to call external processes while capturing both their input and output.

luaprofiler

LuaProfiler is a time profiler designed to help finding bottlenecks on your Lua program.

libffi

FFI stands for Foreign Function Interface. A foreign function interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code written in one language t o call code written in another language.

bootstrap

Bootstrap process to create the deployment utility from scratch

luasql-odbc

LuaSQL is a simple interface from Lua to a DBMS - ODBC driver

markdown

A pure-lua implementation of the Markdown text-to-html markup system.

cmake

A cross-platform, open-source build system that generates native makefiles.

libzzip

The zziplib provides read access to zipped files in a zip-archive.

gslshell

GSL shell is an interactive Lua command line interface that gives easy access to the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) collection of mathematical methods for numerical computations.

luagraph

LuaGRAPH is a binding to the graphviz library.

lcms2

LittleCMS is a CMM, a color management engine

luasql-firebird

LuaSQL is a simple interface from Lua to a DBMS - Firebird driver

concurrentlua

Concurrency Oriented Programming in Lua