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Port details on branch 2024Q4
lua54 Powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language
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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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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
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:latest5.4.85.4.85.4.25.4.85.4.8n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly5.4.85.4.85.4.65.4.75.4.8n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest5.4.85.4.85.4.45.4.85.4.85.4.6-5.4.6
FreeBSD:14:quarterly5.4.85.4.8-5.4.75.4.85.4.65.4.65.4.6
FreeBSD:15:latest5.4.85.4.8n/a5.4.8n/an/a5.4.6_15.4.6_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly5.4.85.4.8n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest5.4.85.4.8n/a-n/an/a--
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. dns/knot-resolver6
  4. lang/fennel
  5. net-im/prosody
  6. sysutils/fastfetch
  7. sysutils/ucored
for Libraries
  1. archivers/lua-zlib
  2. archivers/rpm4
  3. comms/tio
  4. converters/lua-iconv
  5. converters/osm2pgsql
  6. databases/lua-lsqlite3
  7. databases/lua-pgsql
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  2. databases/lua-xapian
  3. databases/luadbi
  4. databases/luasql-firebird
  5. databases/luasql-mysql
  6. databases/luasql-odbc
  7. databases/luasql-postgres
  8. databases/luasql-sqlite3
  9. databases/tokyotyrant
  10. devel/llvm-devel
  11. devel/llvm20
  12. devel/llvm21
  13. devel/llvm22
  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-cjson-openresty
  21. devel/lua-cqueues
  22. devel/lua-lgi
  23. devel/lua-libevent
  24. devel/lua-lpeg
  25. devel/lua-luacheck
  26. devel/lua-luarocks
  27. devel/lua-luastatic
  28. devel/lua-lunit
  29. devel/lua-lunitx
  30. devel/lua-posix
  31. devel/lua-stdlib
  32. devel/lua-stdlib-debug
  33. devel/lua-stdlib-normalize
  34. devel/lua-sysctl
  35. devel/luafilesystem
  36. devel/lutok
  37. devel/mfc-candidates
  38. devel/xmake-io
  39. dns/dnsdist
  40. dns/luaunbound
  41. dns/powerdns
  42. dns/powerdns-recursor
  43. editors/lite
  44. editors/lite-xl
  45. editors/mle
  46. editors/rehex
  47. editors/vis
  48. emulators/flycast
  49. emulators/mgba
  50. games/OpenTomb
  51. games/battletanks
  52. games/corsix-th
  53. games/etlegacy
  54. games/freeciv
  55. games/freeciv-nox11
  56. games/freeciv21
  57. games/jaggedalliance2
  58. games/megaglest
  59. games/onscripter
  60. games/onscripter-1byte
  61. games/stonesoup
  62. games/wesnoth
  63. games/xnethack
  64. graphics/darktable
  65. graphics/ipe
  66. graphics/lua-gd
  67. graphics/lua-qrencode
  68. graphics/xournalpp
  69. irc/dxirc
  70. irc/weechat
  71. lang/py-lupa
  72. lang/tolua
  73. mail/imapfilter
  74. mail/opendkim
  75. mail/opendkim-devel
  76. math/sc-im
  77. multimedia/obs-studio
  78. multimedia/vlc
  79. multimedia/wireplumber
  80. net/asterisk20
  81. net/asterisk22
  82. net/lua-luasocket
  83. net/lualdap
  84. net/msoak
  85. net/ntopng
  86. net/tinyfugue-devel
  87. net/zapret2
  88. net-im/telegram-cli
  89. science/axom
  90. science/orthanc
  91. science/serac
  92. science/spheral
  93. security/lua-argon2
  94. security/lua-bcrypt
  95. security/luasec
  96. sysutils/libdnf
  97. sysutils/lua-puremagic
  98. sysutils/porch
  99. sysutils/slurm-wlm
  100. sysutils/vtm
  101. textproc/highlight
  102. textproc/libucl
  103. textproc/lua-icu-utils
  104. textproc/lua-luaexpat
  105. textproc/lua-lyaml
  106. www/bozohttpd
  107. www/faup
  108. www/lighttpd
  109. www/osrm-backend
  110. www/tokyopromenade
  111. x11/libinput
  112. x11-wm/notion
  113. Collapse this list.

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. devel/freebsd-git-devtools*
  2. devel/kyua*
  3. graphics/darktable38*
  4. graphics/darktable40*
  5. graphics/darktable42*
  6. net/asterisk16*
  7. net/asterisk18*
  8. net/luasocket*
  9. sysutils/orch*
  10. textproc/luaexpat*
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for Run
  1. converters/lua-json
  2. databases/xapian-bindings
  3. devel/sol2
  4. dns/knot-resolver6
  5. lang/fennel
  6. net-im/prosody

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
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Master Sites:
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  1. https://www.lua.org/ftp/
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