Lua Setup error

Question

Hi I ve downloaded lua extracted it and tried to make it

sg1@kalanamith:~/lua-5.2.1$ make linux test

after that um getting this error

ar rcu liblua.a lapi.o lcode.o lctype.o ldebug.o ldo.o ldump.o lfunc.o lgc.o llex.o lmem.o lobject.o lopcodes.o lparser.o lstate.o lstring.o ltable.o ltm.o lundump.o lvm.o lzio.o lauxlib.o lbaselib.o lbitlib.o lcorolib.o ldblib.o liolib.o lmathlib.o loslib.o lstrlib.o ltablib.o loadlib.o linit.o 
ranlib liblua.a
gcc -O2 -Wall -DLUA_COMPAT_ALL -DLUA_USE_LINUX -c -o lua.o lua.c 
gcc -o lua lua.o liblua.a -lm -Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline -lncurses 
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [lua] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sg1/lua-5.2.1/src'
make[1]: *** [linux] Error 2 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sg1/lua-5.2.1/src'
make: *** [linux] Error 2

This is my first day with Lua so Ill be great full if any one can give me a help. thank you in advance

• Justin Lewis: Do you have ncurses installed?
• Kalanamith: 12.04 is the Linux version
• Kalanamith: eh ncursers? ill check .

Answer 1

Looks like you're missing the ncurses library. Make sure you've got all dependencies installed, e.g. by using sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev (might depend on your system/version).

• Kalanamith: Hey Thank you seems like now the Lua is compiling.

Answer 2

Apply the patch used to compile the Debian/Ubuntu package:

Index: lua5.2-5.2.0.obsolete.0.298371916710497/src/Makefile
===================================================================
--- lua5.2-5.2.0.obsolete.0.298371916710497.orig/src/Makefile 2012年05月04日 16:27:35.000000000 +0200
+++ lua5.2-5.2.0.obsolete.0.298371916710497/src/Makefile 2012年05月04日 16:27:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 generic: $(ALL)
 linux:
- $(MAKE) $(ALL) SYSCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_LINUX" SYSLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline -lncurses"
+ $(MAKE) $(ALL) SYSCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_LINUX" SYSLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline"
 macosx:
 $(MAKE) $(ALL) SYSCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_MACOSX" SYSLIBS="-lreadline"

Original source: http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/lua5.2/5.2.1-3/no-ncurses-dependency.patch

Cheers