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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/llvm23
  15. devel/love10
  16. devel/lua-Penlight
  17. devel/lua-argparse
  18. devel/lua-bitlib
  19. devel/lua-bitop
  20. devel/lua-cjson
  21. devel/lua-cjson-openresty
  22. devel/lua-cqueues
  23. devel/lua-lgi
  24. devel/lua-libevent
  25. devel/lua-lpeg
  26. devel/lua-luacheck
  27. devel/lua-luarocks
  28. devel/lua-luastatic
  29. devel/lua-lunit
  30. devel/lua-lunitx
  31. devel/lua-posix
  32. devel/lua-stdlib
  33. devel/lua-stdlib-debug
  34. devel/lua-stdlib-normalize
  35. devel/lua-sysctl
  36. devel/luafilesystem
  37. devel/lutok
  38. devel/mfc-candidates
  39. devel/xmake-io
  40. dns/dnsdist
  41. dns/luaunbound
  42. dns/powerdns
  43. dns/powerdns-recursor
  44. editors/lite
  45. editors/lite-xl
  46. editors/mle
  47. editors/rehex
  48. editors/vis
  49. emulators/flycast
  50. emulators/mgba
  51. games/OpenTomb
  52. games/battletanks
  53. games/corsix-th
  54. games/etlegacy
  55. games/freeciv
  56. games/freeciv-nox11
  57. games/freeciv21
  58. games/jaggedalliance2
  59. games/megaglest
  60. games/onscripter
  61. games/onscripter-1byte
  62. games/stonesoup
  63. games/trx
  64. games/wesnoth
  65. games/xnethack
  66. graphics/darktable
  67. graphics/ipe
  68. graphics/lua-gd
  69. graphics/lua-qrencode
  70. graphics/xournalpp
  71. irc/dxirc
  72. irc/weechat
  73. lang/py-lupa
  74. lang/tolua
  75. mail/imapfilter
  76. mail/opendkim
  77. mail/opendkim-devel
  78. math/sc-im
  79. multimedia/obs-studio
  80. multimedia/vlc
  81. multimedia/wireplumber
  82. net/asterisk20
  83. net/asterisk22
  84. net/lua-luasocket
  85. net/lualdap
  86. net/msoak
  87. net/ntopng
  88. net/tinyfugue-devel
  89. net/zapret2
  90. net-im/telegram-cli
  91. science/axom
  92. science/orthanc
  93. science/serac
  94. science/spheral
  95. security/lua-argon2
  96. security/lua-bcrypt
  97. security/luasec
  98. sysutils/libdnf
  99. sysutils/lua-puremagic
  100. sysutils/porch
  101. sysutils/slurm-wlm
  102. sysutils/vtm
  103. textproc/highlight
  104. textproc/libucl
  105. textproc/lua-icu-utils
  106. textproc/lua-luaexpat
  107. textproc/lua-lyaml
  108. www/bozohttpd
  109. www/faup
  110. www/lighttpd
  111. www/osrm-backend
  112. www/tokyopromenade
  113. x11/libinput
  114. x11-wm/notion
  115. 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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