aaand I'm done for the night, after a 7 hour stream!
We now have a branch where #LuaRocks can build from a plain Makefile into a stand-alone executable with all its #Lua dependencies vendored in: https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/tree/luarocks4
Next steps will be to deal with its non-Lua dependencies, and Windows cross-compilation. With that in place, further code cleanups can start!
Today, I extracted my #Lua port of the Rough.js library into a standalone module and published it on #luarocks
It is a small graphics library that lets you draw lines, polygons and curves in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style.
I formerly used it in some of my 3rd-party packages for the #SILE typesetting system, but now having it as its own independent module might be interesting for other Lua developers, outside the SILE ecosystem.
#LuaRocks question - how can I use it with #LuaJIT?
$ luarocks --lua-version=5.1 install --local opencl
Installing https://luarocks.org/opencl-1.2.0-1.src.rock
Warning: variable CFLAGS was not passed in build_variables
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/luarocks_opencl-1.2.0-1/lua-opencl/test'
/usr/bin/lua5.1 platform.lua
/usr/bin/lua5.1: ...opencl-1.2.0-1/lua-opencl/test/../opencl/C.lua:7: module 'ffi' not found
Do I need to reconfigure/reinstall luarocks, or can I make it work with both LuaJIT and Lua 5.1/5.4?
Peter Billam passed away last week.
Composer, musician, linguist, hacker, community contributor.
He had been fighting ill health at Royal Hobart Hospital for the last 2 months when on Wednesday his condition deteriorated suddenly. He died peacefully in the company of a friend on Thursday.
His website:
http://peterbillam.fastmail.com.user.fm/
Peter's code:
https://gitlab.com/users/peterbillam/projects
Rest In Power Peter
#ausMusic #linux #australia #tasLUG #lua #luaRocks #muscript #tasmania #midi #floss #creativeCommons #music
Update on #haikuports, #lua 5.4.7 and #luarocks 3.11.1 have been fixed to nicely work together, now you should be able to just use luarocks to install your rocks on the system and use them, #ICU seen the new 75.1 version and a new package for #boost 1.85.0 has been added, with the last 2 one in place I was able to build and package #Sourcetrail 2024.7.3 (not packaged for the depot).
Have fun in your Haiku as always! :) #HaikuOS
I continue my Lua series with part 3 — testing, mocks, and continuous integration.
Wrote a little #fennel script to parse and create #bitsy game files using #lua:
https://git.sr.ht/~jummit/bitsy-format
It can convert between .bitsy and .json files:
parse-bitsy game.bitsy # prints the json
parse-bitsy game.json # prints the bitsy format
It's also on #luarocks: https://luarocks.org/modules/Jummit/bitsy-format
New article! Part 2 of my 8-part Lua series. This time about creating, building, and publishing packages for Lua: https://martin-fieber.de/blog/create-build-publish-modules-for-lua/
Series overview: https://martin-fieber.de/series/lua/
I’m writing a series of articles about Lua, covering different aspects of the language and the surrounding ecosystem. I just published part 1, focusing on the project setup with LuaRocks: https://martin-fieber.de/blog/lua-project-setup-with-luarocks/
Series overview: https://martin-fieber.de/series/lua/
Just found https://github.com/Omikhleia/markdown.sile - an enhanced Markdown module for the sile typesetter (alternative to LaTeX) - also found https://djot.net via there as well. Sample PDF rendering looks absolutely gorgeous - sadly I can’t seem to install it due to a #luarocks bug (https://gist.github.com/talios/dcb25f45f7057b66e67d3461656fb820) that I’ll have to investigate another night.
Em vez de fazer o que eu devia estar fazendo, obviamente eu estou procrastinando procurando uma alternativa ao gravador de tela em GIF #Peek que eu usava para preparar material de apoio às aulas. Achei um #Gifine, que parece que é escrito em #Lualang, o que me obrigou a instalar #luarocks, e como eu sou tosco no pamac ele está atualizanfo neste momento 2GB de coisas no meu Manjaro.
I love that #LuaRocks' builtin build method copies ./lua to the right place as-is. This allows me to use the build method for my little #Fennel project without any weird tricks.
Yes, the stuff I install won't be usable from Lua without Fennel. That's fine, it isn't meant to be. Nor is the package on LuaRocks - I just supply a rockspec file to build it locally.
@zig @turion
JS is a dynamic language so it's not even like npm can analyze what modules export
just like how there is nothing special about #luarocks besides definitions being Lua files
my cynical take is that JS devs can't stand it when something isn't JS
it's pretty much the whole reason node.js exists
Today I made an update to my #Zsh RockZ plugin, so now it uses #LuaRocks 3.1.2 by default, and fixed a small bug which fixes using the newest versions with #LuaJit — Grab it while it's fresh from the oven! → https://github.com/aperezdc/rockz
