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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/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/kyua
  11. devel/llvm-devel
  12. devel/llvm20
  13. devel/llvm21
  14. devel/llvm22
  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/vis
  48. emulators/flycast
  49. emulators/mgba
  50. games/OpenTomb
  51. games/corsix-th
  52. games/etlegacy
  53. games/freeciv
  54. games/freeciv-nox11
  55. games/freeciv21
  56. games/jaggedalliance2
  57. games/megaglest
  58. games/onscripter
  59. games/onscripter-1byte
  60. games/stonesoup
  61. games/wesnoth
  62. games/xnethack
  63. graphics/darktable
  64. graphics/ipe
  65. graphics/lua-gd
  66. graphics/lua-qrencode
  67. graphics/xournalpp
  68. irc/dxirc
  69. irc/weechat
  70. lang/py-lupa
  71. lang/tolua
  72. mail/imapfilter
  73. mail/opendkim
  74. mail/opendkim-devel
  75. math/sc-im
  76. multimedia/obs-studio
  77. multimedia/vlc
  78. multimedia/wireplumber
  79. net/asterisk20
  80. net/asterisk22
  81. net/lua-luasocket
  82. net/lualdap
  83. net/msoak
  84. net/ntopng
  85. net/tinyfugue-devel
  86. net/zapret2
  87. net-im/telegram-cli
  88. science/axom
  89. science/orthanc
  90. science/spheral
  91. security/lua-argon2
  92. security/lua-bcrypt
  93. security/luasec
  94. sysutils/libdnf
  95. sysutils/lua-puremagic
  96. sysutils/porch
  97. sysutils/slurm-wlm
  98. sysutils/vtm
  99. textproc/highlight
  100. textproc/libucl
  101. textproc/lua-icu-utils
  102. textproc/lua-luaexpat
  103. textproc/lua-lyaml
  104. www/bozohttpd
  105. www/faup
  106. www/lighttpd
  107. www/osrm-backend
  108. www/tokyopromenade
  109. x11-wm/notion
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Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. devel/freebsd-git-devtools*
  2. graphics/darktable38*
  3. graphics/darktable40*
  4. graphics/darktable42*
  5. net/asterisk16*
  6. net/asterisk18*
  7. net/luasocket*
  8. sysutils/orch*
  9. 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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