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Revision as of 11:36, 7 March 2013

This page aims to list the Lua VMs which work with Lua Development Tools (LDT).

By "work", we mean :

  • VM which is compatible with our debugger.
  • VM for which an execution environment is available. (enable API's autocompletion and documentation)

(Feel free to complete this list with your tests)

VM Debugger Compatibility Execution Environment
Name-Version Based on Officially supported Transport Layer Comments Execution environment is only used to enable some user assistance (autocompletion, documentation) for a given VM
Lua-5.1 Lua-5.1 Ok green.gif Since LDT 0.1. LuaSocket 2.0 needed. Ok green.gifOfficially available since 0.8, shipped with LDT since 0.9.
Jnlua-0.9 Lua-5.1 Ok green.gif Since LDT 0.9. Based on Java Socket. Interpreter based on Jnlua 0.9 shipped with LDT since 0.9. Ok green.gifOfficially available since 0.8 (use Lua 5.1 one), shipped with LDT since 0.9.
Mihini-0.8 Lua-5.1 Progress.gif Coming soon. LuaSocket 2.0 available in Mihini. Available at Execution Environment page
Lua-5.2 Lua-5.2 Progress.gif In Progress. LuaSocket 2.1 needed (not released yet). Could partially work with the 0.9. Not available for now (we are looking for community help).
Jnlua-1.0 Lua-5.2 Should work, not tested. Need a transport layer, may work with LuaSocket 2.1. Could be nice to ship it with LDT. (See Lua 5.2)
LuaJIT-2.0 Lua-5.1 Progress.gif In Progress. Should work with LuaSocket 2.0 patched (here the patches to apply) and perhaps with LuaSocket 2.1 (not released yet). Should work soon with a nightly build. Lua 5.1 Execution environment could be used.
wxLua Lua-5.1 Not officially supported, but should work. LuaSocket 2.0 needed. Tested v2.8.10 on windows with LuaSocket 2.0 and LDT 0.9: works out of the box. We don't know about any. Perhaps it could be partially generated from doxygen documentation (we are looking for community help).

Lua 5.1 execution environment could be used waiting for better.

MOAI Lua-5.1 Not officially supported. LuaSocket shipped by MOAI. Tested MOAI sdk v1.3-149 on windows : Works only with the "Lua Attach To Application" and seems there are problems with coroutines created with MOAI's API.

Could be nice to offer a better support. Could work out of the box if MOAI's interpreter was able to handle "-e" option. :/

Available at Execution Environment page
Gideros Lua-5.1 Not officially supported. LuaSocket ? Not tested. Available at Execution Environment page
Corona Lua-5.1 Not officially supported. LuaSocket ? Not tested. We don't know about any (we are looking for community help).

Lua 5.1 execution environment could be used waiting for better.

LÖVE Lua-5.1 Not officially supported. LuaSocket ? Not tested. We don't know about any (we are looking for community help : not missing so much to create one from https://github.com/mkosler/LOVELuaDoc).

Lua 5.1 execution environment could be used waiting for better.


If you want to provide an execution environment for your VM, you could read this.

To be compatible with our debugger, you need to :

  • be based on a Lua VM 5.1 or 5.2.
  • integrate (or be compatible) with "standard" luasocket (2.0 or 2.1) to create a TCP connection between the VM and the IDE.

(if you cannot/do not want to use luasocket, you can also implement your own transport layer : see the transport parameter of debuger in the user guide)

To have full debug integration with the IDE, you need to :

  • have an interpreter which handles the '-e' option to bootstrap the debugger code.
  • have an interpreter which takes in parameter the lua script file to run (see lua interpreter documentation).
  • respect the LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH environment variable.
  • (optional) ship luasocket.

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