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 (8.4, 8.6) has 2.1

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

  • SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP3, 15 SP4)
  • RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 9.0)
  • Ubuntu (18.04, 20.04, 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>/

  • SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP3, 15 SP4)

    sudo zypper update
sudo zypper install git gcc make

  • RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 9.0)

    sudo yum install gcc make git

  • Ubuntu (18.04, 20.04, 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
sudo ln -s luajit-2.1.0-beta3 /usr/local/bin/luajit

References:

http://luajit.org/