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Port details on branch 2024Q4
lua54 Powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language
5.4.8 lang on this many watch lists=11 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 5.4.7Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2020-10-15 17:55:29
Last Update: 2025-07-05 09:22:45
Commit Hash: 50f3581
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License: MIT
WWW:
https://www.lua.org/
Description:
Lua is a programming language originally designed for extending applications, but also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax (similar to Pascal) with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the language small, while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional ways. Extensible semantics is a distinguishing feature of Lua. Lua is implemented as a small library of C functions, written in ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. The implementation goals are simplicity, efficiency, portability, and low embedding cost.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/lua54-5.4.8/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/lua54-5.4.8/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/lua54-5.4.8/MIT
  5. bin/lua54
  6. bin/luac54
  7. include/lua54/lauxlib.h
  8. include/lua54/lua.h
  9. include/lua54/lua.hpp
  10. include/lua54/luaconf.h
  11. include/lua54/lualib.h
  12. lib/liblua-5.4.a
  13. lib/liblua-5.4.so
  14. libdata/pkgconfig/lua-5.4.pc
  15. share/man/man1/lua54.1.gz
  16. share/man/man1/luac54.1.gz
  17. @dir lib/lua/5.4
  18. @dir share/lua/5.4
  19. @owner
  20. @group
  21. @mode
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Dependency lines:
  • lua54>0:lang/lua54
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/lang/lua54/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install lang/lua54
  • pkg install lua54
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: lua54
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1751702639 SHA256 (lua-5.4.8.tar.gz) = 4f18ddae154e793e46eeab727c59ef1c0c0c2b744e7b94219710d76f530629ae SIZE (lua-5.4.8.tar.gz) = 374332

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
lua54
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest5.4.75.4.75.4.25.4.75.4.7-5.4.2-
FreeBSD:13:quarterly5.4.75.4.75.4.65.4.75.4.75.4.65.4.65.4.6
FreeBSD:14:latest5.4.75.4.75.4.45.4.75.4.85.4.6-5.4.6
FreeBSD:14:quarterly5.4.75.4.7-5.4.75.4.75.4.65.4.65.4.6
FreeBSD:15:latest5.4.75.4.7n/a5.4.7n/a5.4.6_15.4.6_15.4.6_1
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Library dependencies:
  1. libedit.so.0 : devel/libedit
This port is required by:
for Build
  1. devel/swig
  2. devel/swig40
  3. lang/fennel

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. devel/lua-language-server*
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for Libraries
  1. archivers/rpm4
  2. comms/tio
  3. converters/lua-iconv
  4. converters/osm2pgsql
  5. databases/lua-lsqlite3
  6. databases/lua-pgsql
  7. databases/lua-xapian
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  2. databases/luadbi
  3. databases/luasql-firebird
  4. databases/luasql-mysql
  5. databases/luasql-odbc
  6. databases/luasql-postgres
  7. databases/luasql-sqlite3
  8. databases/tokyotyrant
  9. devel/freebsd-git-devtools
  10. devel/kyua
  11. devel/llvm-devel
  12. devel/llvm11
  13. devel/llvm20
  14. devel/love10
  15. devel/lua-Penlight
  16. devel/lua-argparse
  17. devel/lua-bitlib
  18. devel/lua-bitop
  19. devel/lua-cjson
  20. devel/lua-cqueues
  21. devel/lua-lgi
  22. devel/lua-libevent
  23. devel/lua-lpeg
  24. devel/lua-luacheck
  25. devel/lua-luarocks
  26. devel/lua-lunit
  27. devel/lua-lunitx
  28. devel/lua-posix
  29. devel/lua-stdlib
  30. devel/lua-stdlib-debug
  31. devel/lua-stdlib-normalize
  32. devel/lua-sysctl
  33. devel/luafilesystem
  34. devel/lutok
  35. devel/xmake-io
  36. dns/dnsdist
  37. dns/luaunbound
  38. dns/powerdns
  39. dns/powerdns-recursor
  40. editors/lite
  41. editors/lite-xl
  42. editors/mle
  43. editors/vis
  44. emulators/flycast
  45. emulators/mgba
  46. games/OpenTomb
  47. games/corsix-th
  48. games/etlegacy
  49. games/freeciv
  50. games/freeciv-nox11
  51. games/freeciv21
  52. games/jaggedalliance2
  53. games/megaglest
  54. games/onscripter
  55. games/onscripter-1byte
  56. games/wesnoth
  57. games/xnethack
  58. graphics/darktable
  59. graphics/lua-gd
  60. graphics/xournalpp
  61. irc/dxirc
  62. irc/weechat
  63. lang/py-lupa
  64. lang/tolua
  65. mail/imapfilter
  66. mail/opendkim
  67. mail/opendkim-devel
  68. math/sc-im
  69. multimedia/obs-studio
  70. multimedia/vlc
  71. multimedia/wireplumber
  72. net/asterisk18
  73. net/asterisk20
  74. net/asterisk22
  75. net/lua-luasocket
  76. net/lualdap
  77. net/msoak
  78. net/ntopng
  79. net/tinyfugue-devel
  80. net-im/prosody
  81. net-im/telegram-cli
  82. science/axom
  83. science/orthanc
  84. science/spheral
  85. security/lua-argon2
  86. security/lua-bcrypt
  87. security/luasec
  88. sysutils/libdnf
  89. sysutils/lua-puremagic
  90. sysutils/porch
  91. sysutils/slurm-wlm
  92. sysutils/vtm
  93. textproc/highlight
  94. textproc/libucl
  95. textproc/lua-icu-utils
  96. textproc/lua-luaexpat
  97. textproc/lua-lyaml
  98. www/bozohttpd
  99. www/faup
  100. www/lighttpd
  101. www/nift
  102. www/osrm-backend
  103. www/tokyopromenade
  104. x11-wm/notion
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Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. graphics/darktable38*
  2. graphics/darktable40*
  3. graphics/darktable42*
  4. net/asterisk16*
  5. net/luasocket*
  6. sysutils/orch*
  7. textproc/luaexpat*
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for Run
  1. converters/lua-json
  2. databases/xapian-bindings
  3. devel/sol2
  4. lang/fennel

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for lua54-5.4.8: ====> Documentation options DOCS=on: Install language and API reference (HTML, ~400kB) ====> Debugging options ASSERT=off: Enable interpreter assertions APICHECK=off: Enable API checks ====> Interactive command-line editing: you have to select exactly one of them EDITNONE=off: No command-line editing LIBEDIT_DL=on: Use dynamically loaded libedit (recommended) LIBEDIT=off: Use libedit (breaks lcurses) READLINE=off: Use GNU Readline (breaks lcurses) ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
lang_lua54
USES:
cpe lua:core,54 libedit
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://www.lua.org/ftp/
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