Re: lua

I'm going to have to grok this.

It will take a bit of time.

Thanks

--rob


On 08/21/2018 07:48 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:26 AM, rob <drrob106@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi. I'm interested in getting code folding to work. I'm getting a message
>> on Ubuntu 16.04 amd64 that lua has to be compiled in for a macro to work.
>>
>> How do I get lua to be compiled into the make process?
>>
>> --rob
> You can get folding without lua in any Normal, Big or Huge Vim; but
> that doesn't help with your macro.
>
> For lua, you need, in addition to everything else needed to compile Vim:
>
> 1) lua installed on your system _with_ the corresponding "development"
> packages (the latter are necessary to compile a program which uses
> lua). I'm not sure how exactly to get these on Ubuntu (I'm on openSUSE
> Linux) but you should be able to query your package manager about
> packages whose names start with lua and make sure that at least the
> lua library package and the lua development package are installed.
>
> 2) then you need to configure and compile Vim with lua. See the
> following for details:
> https://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial
> http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm
> These two may seem a little complex but I tried to make them apply to
> any use case. (I'm not sure I succeeded but at least I tried.)
>
> The relevant configure parameter is --enable-luainterp (e.g. export
> CONF_OPT_LUA='--enable-luainterp') and I recommend to run "make
> reconfig" to reconfigure and recompile after any change in your
> configure settings (which I define by means of environment variables
> so Make will get them right even if, as it sometimes happens, it
> decides to run configure again before an ordinary compile).
>
> Before running "make install", run src/vim --version to see if the Vim
> you just compiled has +lua (and everything else that you want it to
> have). If it doesn't then it is time to ask yourself what went wrong.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
>

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