Building & Installing - siffiejoe/lua-fltk4lua GitHub Wiki

Building/Installing

fltk4lua is compatible with Lua 5.1 (including LuaJIT), 5.2, and 5.3, for which the required include files have to be available. You will also need a C/C++ compiler (yes, one that actually can do both) and FLTK version 1.3 installed. On Unixes you can probably use the package manager for that (on Debian/Ubuntu it's libfltk1.3-dev, in Homebrew it's plain fltk). On Windows you will need to compile FLTK yourself (I have had success for both MinGW and MSVC++ Express 2010 using CMAKE).

The supplied Makefile is configured for Lua 5.2 on a Debian/Ubuntu Linux system. For other Unixes or other Lua installs you will have to change some variables in the Makefile (in particular DLL_INSTALL_DIR and LUA_INCDIR near the top -- most other compilation settings are determined by calling fltk-config) unless you build using LuaRocks which will do that for you automatically. For Windows the only supported way of building fltk4lua is via LuaRocks.

Installing the latest release via LuaRocks

On Unix with FLTK installed system-wide a

luarocks install fltk4lua

should do the trick. On Windows you will probably have to specify the locations of FLTK header files and libraries:

luarocks install fltk4lua \
    FLTK_INCDIR=/path/to/FL/incdir FLTK_LIBDIR=/path/to/fltk/libs

Installing the development version via LuaRocks

To install the latest version of fltk4lua from GitHub you just clone the repository recursively and run luarocks make:

git clone https://github.com/siffiejoe/lua-fltk4lua --recursive
cd lua-fltk4lua
luarocks make

(On Windows don't forget to specify FLTK_INCDIR and FLTK_LIBDIR!)

Or you just use the dev manifest when invoking LuaRocks:

luarocks install --server=http://luarocks.org/dev fltk4lua

However, you will need a git executable installed that LuaRocks can use (this is usually not a problem on Unix).