Building LuaJIT - linux-on-ibm-z/docs GitHub Wiki

Building LuaJIT

The following versions of LuaJIT are available in the respective distribution at the time of creation of these build instructions:

  • RHEL (8.10, 10.0, 10.1) has 2.1
  • SLES (15 SP7, 16 SP0) has 2.1
  • Ubuntu (24.04, 25.10) has 2.1

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build LuaJIT version 2.1 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:

  • RHEL (9.4, 9.6, 9.7)
  • Ubuntu (22.04)

General Notes:

  • When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.
  • A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

Step 1: Build and Install LuaJIT

1.1) Install dependencies

export SOURCE_ROOT=/<source_root>/
  • RHEL (9.4, 9.6, 9.7)

    sudo yum install gcc make git
    
  • Ubuntu (22.04)

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install git gcc make
    

1.2) Download LuaJIT

cd $SOURCE_ROOT
git clone https://github.com/linux-on-ibm-z/LuaJIT.git
cd LuaJIT
git checkout v2.1

1.3) Build and Install LuaJIT

cd $SOURCE_ROOT/LuaJIT/
make
sudo make install

References:

http://luajit.org/