[question] can I build this with Lua 5.1.5?

[devmanso]

I think the title explains itself, if I cannot build it with Lua 5.1.5 which version do I build it with

[aprell]

I think I've never tested it with Lua 5.1... It should work with 5.2 and 5.3. What problems are you seeing with 5.1.5?

[devmanso]

sorry for the late response, I had things to do. Anyways I'm on a school Chromebook (laptop broke, its getting repaired) so for now I'm coding on repl.it (online IDE) it supports only Lua 5.1.5 and when I try to build and compile the code it gives me this error:

lua: ./core.lua:8: module 'lpeg' not found:
    no field package.preload['lpeg']
    no file 'src/lpeg.lua'
    no file './lpeg.lua'
    no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/lpeg.lua'
    no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/lpeg/init.lua'
    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/lpeg.lua'
    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/lpeg/init.lua'
    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/lpeg.lua'
    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/lpeg/init.lua'
    no file './lpeg.so'
    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/lpeg.so'
    no file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.1/lpeg.so'
    no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/lpeg.so'
    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
stack traceback:
    [C]: in function 'require'
    ./core.lua:8: in main chunk
    [C]: in function 'require'
    [string "<eval>"]:3: in main chunk

perhaps I did something wrong when I was building it or perhaps[ps I cannot build it with that version of Lua.

here is what my build looks like: https://repl.it/@Planebagel/tiny#main.lua

[aprell]

I'm not sure if it works there because you need LPeg. On your machine, you could install LuaRocks (a package manager for Lua) and get LPeg with luarocks install lpeg.

[devmanso]

is there any other way to get LPeg? Unfortunately you can't use LuaRocks with repl.it

[aprell]

Not easily, I guess... You could check if LuLPeg works on repl.it, and if it does, try to use it as a replacement for LPeg. But no guarantee that you won't run into other issues.

[devmanso]

I think I actually found out a way to install Luarocks and lpeg on repl.it using bash/shell commands:

get https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.3.1.tar.gz
tar zxpf luarocks-3.3.1.tar.gz
cd luarocks-3.3.1
./configure && make && sudo make install
sudo luarocks install luasocket
sudo luarocks install lpeg
lua src/main.lua 

however I get a different error:

lua: ./test.lua:31: ambiguous syntax (function call x new statement) near '('
Makefile:2: recipe for target 'test' failed
make: *** [test] Error 1

here is my build: https://repl.it/@Planebagel/tinylua#main.sh

[aprell]

Interesting, I didn't know about that parsing issue. Looking into it...

[aprell]

The TEST calls confused the parser. The rest of the code should be fine.

[devmanso]

I builded it again and the test.lua errors are gone.... kinda. When i try to run the build I get a different error:

./test.lua: 3: ./test.lua: package.path: not found
./test.lua: 5: local: not in a function
Makefile:2: recipe for target 'test' failed
make: *** [test] Error 2
exit status 2

the bash/shell commands are exactly the same:

get https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-3.3.1.tar.gz
tar zxpf luarocks-3.3.1.tar.gz
cd luarocks-3.3.1
./configure && make && sudo make install
sudo luarocks install luasocket
sudo luarocks install lpeg
lua src/main.lua 

If you'd like to see my build on repl.it : https://repl.it/@Planebagel/tinylua#test/test.lua

[aprell]

I don't think this shell script works as intended... When I click on "Run", all that runs is make, and make reads in tiny's Makefile, which tries to run the tests.

These errors are unrelated to Lua. I saw that you removed the first line in test/test.lua. You can do that, but you need to replace ./test.lua with lua test.lua in the Makefile.