Fixes

• Fix installation under Lua 5.5
  • Bump compat53 to 0.15

Fixes

• Allow to reload targetrules dynamically

Features

• Added support for cross-compilation
  • Made WebAssembly an officially supported target
• Added Teal support
• Compiler Extensions
  • Custom otype support
  • Custom toolchain support
  • Custom source language support
• New configuration API: LRocket Spec
• Added new log-level detail
  • Shows many details such as line numbers of unresolved require and --lr:embed statements
  • Use log-level debug for I/O-grade debugging
• Lots and lots of internal refactorings

Fixes

• Fixed: Lua 5.1 compatibility for --optimize
• Fixed(Linux): Correctly display archive path in package.searchers error messages

lra

• The LRocket Archive format now supports file types (type field)
  • Currently file and link
• LRocket binaries now support custom runtime search paths

Documentation

• Added dark theme

Dev

• Use lrocket as a library (experimental)
• Make LRocket a provider for luarocks-cross
• Print warnings on ABI mismatch for custom otypes, toolchains and source languages

As of this release, --otype=shared is stable for native Lua modules (.dll/.so)

Features

• Dawn of the lra archive format
• New --lr:embed syntax
  • Allows to embed arbitrary resource-files (see docs)
• New lra CLI tool
  • Allows to interact with archives inside compiled binaries (i.e. lra -l main.exe)
• New options --export and --modname to control exported modules when using --otype=shared
• Added common runtime-base to reduce size of generated C code
• Treat require-statements called with pcall as optional
  • New options --opt and --no-opt to select or deselect optional modules

Fixes

• Respect order of multiple --module and --exclude options in ascending priority (useful for making slim binaries)
• Compile --otype=lua at any optimization level

Documentation

• New Getting Started and Troubleshooting pages

Development

• Run tests for all installed lua versions
• New option --perf to show timings
• log.assert now prints stacktrace when --log-level is debug
• Update sfs API to v0.2

• Fixed: Potential linking errors when using pkg-config to locate Lua library

• Fixed: Lua 5.1 support for otype plugins
• Fixed: Arch Linux does not package static libraries, lrc now accepts the custom liblua and libluajit packages, installed via luarocks

• Fixed: msvcrt is added on clang when not on Windows
• Added(experimental): experimental embed support for custom --otypes

• Several bugfixes
  • Fixed: referential requires using (...)..".submodule" were not resolved
  • Fixed: [scan] failed to parse xpcall statements calling require (LuaJIT / >Lua 5.1)
  • Fixed: [shared] compiled library did not return module or receive arguments
  • Fixed: [toolchain] stdout was cluttered with benign error messages (nm/ldd/pkg-config)
  • Fixed: lrc used -Ospeed, even when no optimization option was set
  • Fixed: extra compiler arguments were not passed
  • Fixed: lrc crashed on certain index expressions
  • Fixed: unreadable error message if --log-level was invalid
• Decluttered pathmap.Resolver:findModule
• Added tests and code coverage with luacov 🎉

• Dependency Tracing and Bundling
  • Packs lua programs/modules into a single bundle
  • Links C modules into the target binary or
  • Copies shared libraries (.so/.dll) into target directory
• Static and Dynamic Linking support
• Integration with LuaRocks
• Platform Support
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • macOS was not tested
• Output Formats
  • Lua Bundle (single .lua-file)
  • Native Executable (e.g. ELF64 or .exe)
  • [experimental] Shared Library (.dll/.so + .h for the use in C or require in lua)
• Lua Versions
  • Supports 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1 and LuaJIT
  • Automatically finds lua in system paths (and via pkg-config if installed)
  • Allows multiple lua versions to be installed with flag to select a version
• Debugging: Compiled executables support lua debuggers (e.g. Local Lua Debugger)
• Optional Embedding of Bytecode
• Optimization Profiles (space / speed)
• Bash/ZSH Completion
• Log Levels
• Many Command-Line Options