1Standard Lua libraries 2====================== 3 4by the [stdlib project][github] 5 6[github]: http://github.com/lua-stdlib/lua-stdlib/ "Github repository" 7 8[](http://travis-ci.org/lua-stdlib/lua-stdlib/builds) 9[](https://waffle.io/lua-stdlib/lua-stdlib) 10 11 12This is a collection of Lua libraries for Lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3. The 13libraries are copyright by their authors 2000-2015 (see the AUTHORS 14file for details), and released under the MIT license (the same 15license as Lua itself). There is no warranty. 16 17Stdlib has no prerequisites beyond a standard Lua system. 18 19 20Installation 21------------ 22 23The simplest way to install stdlib is with [LuaRocks][]. To install the 24latest release (recommended): 25 26 luarocks install stdlib 27 28To install current git master (for testing): 29 30 luarocks install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lua-stdlib/lua-stdlib/release/stdlib-git-1.rockspec 31 32To install without LuaRocks, check out the sources from the 33[repository][github], and then run the following commands: the 34dependencies are listed in the dependencies entry of the file 35`stdlib-rockspec.lua`. You will also need autoconf and automake. 36 37 cd lua-stdlib 38 autoreconf --force --version --install 39 ./configure --prefix=INSTALLATION-ROOT-DIRECTORY 40 make all check install 41 42See [INSTALL][] for instructions for `configure`. 43 44[luarocks]: http://www.luarocks.org "LuaRocks Project" 45[install]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lua-stdlib/lua-stdlib/master/INSTALL 46 47Use 48--- 49 50As well as requiring individual libraries, you can load the standard 51set with 52 53 require "std" 54 55Modules not in the standard set may be removed from future versions of 56stdlib. 57 58 59Documentation 60------------- 61 62The libraries are [documented in LDoc][github.io]. Pre-built HTML 63files are included in the release. 64 65[github.io]: http://lua-stdlib.github.io/lua-stdlib 66 67 68Bug reports and code contributions 69---------------------------------- 70 71These libraries are written and maintained by their users. Please make 72bug report and suggestions on GitHub (see URL at top of file). Pull 73requests are especially appreciated. 74
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