lua-posix
Port variant lua53
Summary POSIX API bindings for Lua 5.3
Package version 36.3
Homepage https://github.com/luaposix/luaposix
Keywords devel
Maintainer Michael Reim
License MIT
Other variants lua52 | lua54 | lua55
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Last modified 24 JAN 2026, 14:52:53 UTC
Port created 08 FEB 2020, 13:29:08 UTC
Subpackage Descriptions
single POSIX binding for Lua and LuaJIT. It simply binds to C APIs on the underlying OS and thus won't work on non-POSIX systems. It does however try to detect the level of POSIX conformance of the OS and binds only to available APIs.
Configuration Switches (platform-specific settings discarded)
LUA52 OFF Build with Lua 5.2 LUA53 ON Build with Lua 5.3 LUA54 OFF Build with Lua 5.4 LUA55 OFF Build with Lua 5.5
Package Dependencies by Type
Build (only) lua53:dev:std
lua53:tools:std
Build and Runtime lua53:primary:std
Runtime (only) lua-stdlib-normalize:single:lua53
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main mirror://GITHUB/luaposix:luaposix:v36.3
Distribution File Information
82cd9a96c41a4a3205c050206f0564ff4456f773a8f9ffc9235ff8f1907ca5e6 189299 luaposix-luaposix-36.3.tar.gz
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