1. Online
You can try lua interactively .
2. Docker
Minimal docker image (~10MB):
Dockerfile
FROM alpine:3.15.0
RUN apk update \
&& apk add --no-cache lua5.4
WORKDIR /workdir
ENTRYPOINT [ "lua5.4" ]
hello.lua
print("Hello, World!")
Build and run:
docker build -t lua .
docker run -v "$(pwd)":/workdir lua hello.lua
3. Manual install
Visit lua.org for detailed instructions to build Lua from source.
4. Package
There is also LuaJIT project - a Just-In-Time Compiler for Lua. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for Lua.
On MacOS Lua can be installed with Homebrew:
brew update
brew install lua
On most Linux distributions Lua is available as lua package.
On non-rolling distributions like Ubuntu it is preferable to
install specific latest version, e.g. lua5.3.
Debian based:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install lua5.3
Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -Syu lua luajit
Fedora:
sudo dnf install lua
On Windows it can be installed either with
luaforwindows project
or
luarocks all-in-one
package.