We write system for building LUA rockspec modules into *.RPM's and *.DEB's. It's fork of luarocks with added c99 and binary packing:

Rockspec is a set of fields, that defines a package in a way, like python's setup.py, perl's Makefile.PL or RPM's 'RPM.spec'. For example we'll take http-scm-1.rockspec:

package = 'http'
version = 'scm-1'
source = {
    url = 'git://github.com/tarantool/http.git',
    branch = 'master',
}
description = {
    summary = "Tarantool module for HTTP client/server.",
    homepage = 'https://github.com/tarantool/http/',
    license = 'BSD',
}
dependencies = {
    'lua >= 5.1'
}
build = {
    type = 'builtin',

    modules = {
        ['box.http.lib'] = 'src/lib.c',
        ['box.http.client'] = 'src/client.lua',
        ['box.http.server'] = 'src/server.lua',
        ['box.http.mime_types'] = 'src/mime_types.lua',
        ['box.http.codes'] = 'src/codes.lua',
    },
    c99 = true,
}

Fields:

• package - name of package, without tarantool- prefix. (MANDATORY)
• version - version of your package. It is <package_version>-<revision>, where package_version may be anything, but revision is a natural number. package_version may be scm(reduction of 'Source Code Management') - used for bleeding edge rockspecs (we'll talk about types of rockspecs later) (MANDATORY)
• source - must be table with fields url and, optionally, branch (MANDATORY):
  • source.url - is path to VCS repo or .tar.*/.zip archives. (MANDATORY)
  • source.branch - is a branch to checkout (for VCS).
  • source.tag - is a tag to checkout (for VCS).
  • source.md5 - is a md5 of archive.
  • source.file - is a file name to download archive to.
  • source.dir - is the name for directory to unpack archive to.
• description - must be table with listed fields (MANDATORY):
  • summary - short, one-line description of project
  • homepage - home-page of this project
  • license - license under which product is distributed
  • maintainer - one, who wrote this spec
  • details - a detailed description of module
• build - must be table with listed fields (MANDATORY):
  • type - currently supported only builtin OR make, command or none with install field.
  • Other fields are explained later
• dependencies, external_dependencies - read about them on luarocks site

For builtin type:

• c99 - module must be built with support of --std=c99
• modules - must be table with mapping module->source file(s)
  • semantics of module - ['box.http.lib'] where dots means subcatalog
  • value of mapping is:
    • string with path to Lua file in root of package.
    • string with path to C file to compile
    • table with paths to C files.
    • table with following fields:
      • sources - table of string - pathname of C sources
      • libraries - external libraries to be linked with
      • defines - table of C defines. {"FOO=bar", "USE_BLA"}
      • incdirs - additional dir's where to search headers in
      • libdirs - additional dir's where to search for libraries

For make type:

• makefile - makefile to be used. Default is 'Makefile'
• build_target - target for building. Default is ""
• install_pass - skip target for installing. Default is true, but MUST be false in order for packaging works just fine.
• build_variables - assignments to be passed to make during the build pass. Default is {}. Expected 'CC', 'CFLAGS' and 'LIBFLAGS'
• install - table, that have keys lua and lib, that defines what it must install and where:
  • lua - keys are like in semantics of modules(of builtin builder), values are paths for libs, written on Lua
  • lib - keys are like in semantics of modules(of builtin builder), values are paths for libs, written on C

For example:

build = {
    type = "make",
    makefile = "Makefile",
    build_target = "build_zmq_poller",
    install_pass = false,
    install = {
        lua = {
            ['zmq.threads'] = "src/threads.lua",
        }
        lib = {
            ['zmq.poller'] = "poller.so"
        }
    }
}

For command type:

• build_command - command to run build the package
• install - explained in make section

For none type:

• install - explained in make section

Composer of rockspec must stick to some rules:

• If module not builded with builtin builder, then it MUST install files via install field, nor install_command or install_target.

TODO: other rules.

• Currently supported VCS: git only.
• Currently supported OS : DEB/RPM based linux'es.
• Currently not supported dependencies in RPM/DEB.
• It depends on wget and md5

Simply clone bigbe92/luarocks at github, modify luarocks/src/luarocks/site_config.lua (explained later, but you may use standard settings), change dir to luarocks/src/bin and start is with ./luarocks command. For building lua module you'll need simply ./luarocks build <rockspec_path_or_name_in_repo> --build-rpm or --build-deb.

For --build-rpm you'll need rpmbuild and for --build-deb you'll need fakeroot and alien. It'll check deps on start.

It generates RPM spec, with all builded files. Takes all fields from rockspec, gets all installed files, and composes rpm.spec, then builds it with rpmbuild. If you need to build deb package, than it uses fakeroot alien for converting it's packages from RPM to DEB, but lib paths are modified. It uses temporary directory for luarocks repo (/tmp/luarocks_build_dir by default). You may simply delete it after building module.

There's file luarocks/src/luarocks/site_config.lua - it defines global configuration for building modules. There are some fields, that it supports:

• LUA_INCDIR, LUA_LIBDIR, LUA_BINDIR - path for includes for Tarantool headers, path for includes of Tarantool libraries and path for Tarantool binary
• LUAROCKS_ROCKS_TREE - path for temporary dir, where rocks are installed.
• LUAROCKS_UNAME_S, LUAROCKS_UNAME_M - name and arch of OS where module is building
• LUAROCKS_EXTERNAL_DEPS_SUBDIR, LUAROCKS_RUNTIME_EXTERNAL_DEPS_SUBDIR - paths where to search for external_dependencies

Our repository is located at github at gh-pages branch. Currently we have one rockspec - http-scm-1.rockspec, but if you'll create another you may submit another one. If you'll submit your rockspec, don't forget about running luarocks-admin make_manifest ./ in the root of repo and, then, zip files: zip manifest-5.1.zip manifest-5.1 and zip manifest-5.2.zip manifest-5.2 and then, reconfigure buildbot for building all modules for latest tarantool.