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What is luapower?

Luapower is a binary+source module distribution for LuaJIT, Terra and OpenResty and a way of deploying and sharing Lua modules. Learn more...

How do I get started?

Option 1. Like a Pro, using multigit:

git clone https://github.com/capr/multigit luapower
cd luapower
mgit clone https://github.com/luapower/luapower-repos
mgit clone-all

git clone https://github.com/capr/multigit luapower
cd luapower
./mgit clone https://github.com/luapower/luapower-repos
./mgit clone-all

Option 2. All-in-one:

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Option 3. Swedish buffet: Get only luajit and the modules you need from the table below, and unzip their contents over the same directory to get a portable, self-contained luapower installation.

NEW! Browse the whole annotated source tree online!

What is Lua?

Lua is a powerful, fast and lightweight scripting language. It has been used in many popular applications since its inception in 1993.

Why is it special?

Lua has a clean syntax, only 8 basic types (with LuaJIT adding a ninth), first class functions with multiple return values and varargs, a versatile data structuring type, lexical scoping, light threads, iterators, inheritance, exceptions, function environments, built-in pattern matching, tail calls, and a one-function module system.

Lua has a small and concise manual, an extensive FAQ and an active and friendly mailing list, making it easy to learn and get help along the way.

What is LuaJIT?

LuaJIT is a tracing just-in-time compiler (JIT) for Lua, and it's one of the fastest compilers for a dynamic language around.

LuaJIT is fully compatible with Lua 5.1, and includes many features from Lua 5.2 as well as some portability enhancements of the standard library.

LuaJIT extends Lua with a powerful ffi interface that allows calling C functions directly, without the need to write glue code.

Packages

Type	Package	What	Version	Updated	Platforms	License
other	ace.js		211e9bd	1600698707	0;0;other	P.D.
Lua	affine2d	2D affine transforms	388c040	1611879328	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua	amoeba	Cassowary constraint solver in Lua	c516b97	1521497834	100;2;Lua	MIT
Lua	bearssl		6cad652	1607702483	3;2;Lua;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	bitmap	In-memory bitmaps	3525092	1560088478	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	blake2	BLAKE2 hashing	925b92d	1560423703	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	P.D.
Lua+ffi	bmp	BMP file loading and saving	25733a9	1543177053	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	bnet	Networking library	6f205fe	1577436139	100;1;Lua+ffi	MIT
Lua	box2d	Rectangle math	dbe5a03	1560164346	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	boxblur	Fast box blur	b2e3938	1573081241	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	P.D.
Lua+ffi	bundle	Single-executable app deployment	6498037	1608688628	1;1;Lua+ffi;mingw64	P.D.
Lua+ffi	cairo	Cairo graphics engine	r3-118-gff9605a	1573080447	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MPL/LGPL
Lua+ffi	cbframe	Callback frames for luajit	f7f905b	1514301831	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua/C	cjson	JSON encoding & decoding	13d2358	1624893351	3;2;Lua/C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	clipper	Polygon clipping	06c169c	1560423733	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	Boost
Lua	color	Color parsing, formatting and computation	e5235d2	1573080500	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua	coro	Symmetric coroutines	ecf88e1	1634403398	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	cplayer	Procedural graphics & IMGUI toolkit	a360bec	1577435801	1;1;Lua+ffi;mingw64	P.D.
Lua	csv	CSV parser in Lua	25c3d53	1579261458	100;2;Lua	MIT
Lua+ffi	dollar		90b5da6	1635035993	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	dynasm	DynASM with Lua mode	d375b36	1560423745	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua	easing	Easing functions	1eccf8d	1530017215	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua	eq	3rd degree equation solver	9a9e491	1532376108	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua	errors	Structured exceptions for Lua	8748747	1632862936	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua	events	Pub/sub mixin for object systems	7e44b0e	1541155889	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	expat	XML parser	234375b	1576226818	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	ffi_reflect	Luajit ffi reflection	9eeeb18	1446140239	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	font_db	Font database for font selection	b1efd16	1558176947	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	freetype	Freetype font engine	ee65456	1618933811	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	FTL/BSD
Lua+ffi	fribidi	Unicode BiDi algorithm	ce4b4de	1560423776	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	LGPL
Lua+ffi	fs	Portable filesystem support	4b063a7	1633777494	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	genx	XML writer	f26ea9d	1577435047	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	gfonts	Google Fonts font file finder	f339225	1558938720	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	giflib	GIF reader	569d23e	1560423790	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	glue	Assorted lengths of wire	e6bc5f4	1635035873	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	harfbuzz	Complex text shaping	d569ad4	1577438645	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
other	hash_benchmark		9de73d0	1607702942	0;0;other	P.D.
Lua	heap	Priority queues	083af89	1606004696	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	hidapi	Signall11/hidapi ffi binding	c789cc3	1573639737	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
Lua+ffi	hmac	HMAC hashing	e844c1a	1620853916	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	http	HTTP 1.1 client & server protocol in Lua	cdab2b8	1635035913	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	hunspell	Spell checking	a3e5f2b	1560423808	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MPL
Lua	inspect	Table dump	98dcaac	1534327685	100;2;Lua	P.D.
C	jsmin	JavaScript minification	eb503b1	1622159878	3;0;C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	Good not Evil
Lua/C	lanes	Threads support	fade4b8	1560423814	3;2;Lua/C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	libb64	Base64 encoding & decoding	65c2f4b	1560423828	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	P.D.
Lua+ffi	libcurl	URL transfers	729f76b	1581432572	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	libexif	EXIF reader & writer	4b78bd2	1573646165	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	LGPL
Lua+ffi	libjpeg	JPEG encoding & decoding	dev-58-g6f307cc	1560337379	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
C	libmariadb	MariaDB client library	b4e58b1	1586528397	2;0;C;linux64;mingw64	LGPL
Lua+ffi	libogg	Ogg container file format	a179432	1560423849	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
Lua+ffi	libpng	PNG reader	bb9e742	1560423853	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	LIBPNG
Lua+ffi	libsodium	Libsodium binding	d7e136a	1560423857	1;1;Lua+ffi;mingw64	ISC
Lua+ffi	libsoundio	Audio input and output	4099c90	1577435039	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua	libtls		5fac4d7	1607702969	100;2;Lua	P.D.
C	libtls_bearssl		1c9a599	1607703085	3;0;C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	libunibreak	Unicode line breaking	336767c	1560423867	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	ZLIB/LIBPNG
Lua	linkedlist	Doubly linked lists in Lua	864709a	1609290174	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	llvm	LLVM + Clang binaries	6.0.1-3-g246798d	1577457270	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	UI/NCSA
Lua/C	lpeg	Parsing expression grammars	7a82d08	1560423875	3;2;Lua/C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua	lrucache	Size-limited LRU cache in Lua	921ae1d	1620488153	100;2;Lua	P.D.
C	lua-headers	Lua C API headers	0c55ac1	1440505009	0;0;C	MIT
Lua	luajit	LuaJIT binary	37cd010	1608688411	3;2;Lua;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	luapower	Luapower package reflection library	eb060a1	1619726330	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
other	luapower-repos	The luapower multigit meta-package	c288b76	1634744910	0;0;other	P.D.
Lua	luapower_db	The luapower package database	8f551e5	1578259725	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua/C	luasec		f0e88cf	1572764323	2;2;Lua/C;linux64;mingw64	MIT
Lua+ffi	luastate	Lua/LuaJIT C API binding	487ff33	1529250649	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	lx	Lua lexer in C with extensible Lua parser	2bebac3	1605396934	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	P.D.
Lua+ffi	lz4	Extremely fast compression	9a9fec7	1560423899	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
Lua+ffi	md5	Md5 hashing	e7f15c2	1573051323	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	P.D.
C	mingw64-headers		35f0087	1550356395	0;0;C	P.D.
Lua+ffi	minizip	ZIP reader & writer	c3bc1ff	1580143532	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua	minizip2	Minizip 2 ffi binding	d0d9fcf	1581449121	3;2;Lua;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua	mustache	Logic-less templates	2239359	1626047139	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	mysql	MySQL client library ffi binding	d777be1	1629308046	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	mysql_client	MySQL client protocol in Lua	8e6c42f	1621641830	100;2;Lua	BSD
C	nginx	Nginx server with lua-nginx-module	454c0c3	1600892219	3;0;C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
Lua+ffi	nw	Cross-platform windows for Lua	47a24d5	1575757865	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	objc	Obj-C & Cocoa bridge	r8-6-g70bcaa3	1608753274	1;1;Lua+ffi;osx64	P.D.
Lua	oo	Fancy object system	r13-4-g41394fd	1577353284	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	opengl	OpenGL C API	997418e	1440505055	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	openssl	OpenSSL binding for LuaJIT	43e41fe	1577458140	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	Apache
Lua	path	Path manipulation	5bda869	1596616153	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	path2d	2D geometry in Lua	25f64fb	1611879426	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
C	pcre		84727ad	1573589175	3;0;C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
C	pixman	Pixel manipulation	48ff067	1560423933	3;0;C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua	pp	Table serialization	7fd3c71	1621288735	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	proc	Processes and IPC	19b0c5c	1634868378	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	pthread	POSIX threads	0095f31	1582023073	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
Lua+ffi	rangelist	Unidimensional non-overlapping selection ranges	d3ec88a	1538511221	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	resolver	DNS resolver in Lua	7ab2cd8	1632504970	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Resty	resty-core		v0.1.17-7-gf04ed14	1585667545	0;0;Resty	P.D.
Resty	resty-lrucache		v0.09-14-g3b15fe9	1576321256	0;0;Resty	P.D.
Lua	resty.http	HTTP client for OpenResty	v0.13-8-ge6bc606	1585931725	100;2;Lua	BSD
Lua	resty.mail		v1.0.2-1-gf37cfc9	1585759911	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua	resty.string	Copyright (C) by Yichun Zhang (agentzh)	v0.12rc1-7-ge039c94	1585929800	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	rs232	RS232 serial communication library for LuaJIT	2135a6c	1573639748	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	rsync	Rsync algorithm in Lua	748cb2e	1608756894	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	sha2	SHA-256/-384/-512 hashing	4b75533	1573051351	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
Lua+ffi	shm	POSIX shared memory binding	75f5841	1442958666	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	sock	Portable socket API with IOCP, epoll and kqueue for LuaJIT	f7147d6	1621288704	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua/C	socket	Networking support	fdccfcd	1572655610	3;2;Lua/C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	socketloop	TCP sockets with coroutines	feeb360	1622889177	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	sqlpp	SQL preprocessor, postprocessor and command API	d72d55f	1629308270	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua/C	struct	Binary packing & unpacking	2106c8f	1560423960	3;2;Lua/C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua/C	terra	The Terra language	28ef189	1578166019	3;2;Lua/C;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Terra	terra.arrayfreelist	Freelist for Terra based on a dynamic array	803d5ed	1573258615	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.arrayview	Array view type for Terra	74e393d	1573488615	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Lua+ffi	terra.binder	Terra build system, C header generator and LuaJIT ffi binding generator	037b5c0	1580137454	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Terra	terra.bitarray	1-D and 2-D bit array type for Terra	189ba4a	1577477593	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.bitmap	Bitmaps for Terra	5ab3160	1573210329	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.box2d	Math for 2D rectangles defined as (x, y, w, h) where w >= 0 and h >= 0	b153b9f	1573258653	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.boxblur	Fast bgra8 and g8 box blurs for Terra	55d25e1	1577728853	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.cairo	Cairo binding for Terra based on cairo 1.12.3	46e673b	1573254168	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.dynarray	Dynamic array type for Terra	dcc1e83	1573488684	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.fixedfreelist	Fixed-capacity freelist for Terra	fbc90d0	1573488693	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.hashmap	Hashmap type for Terra	c94bcbc	1573488701	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.layer	HTML-like box-model layouting and rendering engine in Terra with a C API	1ced107	1621288784	3;0;Terra;linux64;mingw64;osx64	P.D.
Terra	terra.linkedlist	Self-allocated doubly-linked list for Terra	c9be54f	1573488710	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.low	Lua+Terra standard library & flat vocabulary of tools	eef4077	1578261163	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.lrucache	LRU cache for Terra, size-limited and count-limited	1855638	1573488718	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.phf	Minimal Perfect Hash Function Generator for Lua/Terra	b0434aa	1573488726	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.random	Tausworthe PRNG in Terra	dd59044	1608751891	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.tr	Unicode text layouting and rendering engine in Terra with a C API	561f751	1608751967	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Terra	terra.utf8	UTF-8 encoding and decoding in Terra	f858394	1573488741	0;0;Terra	P.D.
Lua	terra2		7b26168	1605396946	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	testui	IMGUI for creating manual tests for UI libraries	65373b0	1619766206	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	thread	Hi-level threads	d670552	1632955093	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	time	Time and sleeping	145ccad	1586787966	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	P.D.
Lua+ffi	tr0	Unicode text shaping and rendering	36faa15	1621288754	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	tweening	Tweening & timelines for animation	d6e7693	1575195444	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	ucdn	Unicode database and normalization	04cd599	1560424021	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	MIT
Lua+ffi	ui	UI toolkit with styles and animations	f074a59	1580231315	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	ui0	Extensible UI toolkit in Lua	28fcb16	1573645521	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	unit		960f64e	1573986337	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	unixperms	UNIX permissions strings	05c8213	1514170059	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	uri	URI parsing and formatting in Lua	7bdc4e9	1623891939	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	utf8	UTF-8 encoding and decoding for LuaJIT	702449d	1579259870	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	utf8quot	&name; parser for utf-8 strings	e5f90be	1543853028	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua	uuid	Fast and dependency-free UUID library for LuaJIT	8979338	1599160222	100;2;Lua	MIT
Lua+ffi	videoinput	Video capturing	65e79e1	1573646179	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Resty	webb	Procedural web framework in Lua	1919d91	1635036104	0;0;Resty	P.D.
Lua+ffi	winapi	Win32 windows & controls	75c0ea7	1632663589	1;1;Lua+ffi;mingw64	P.D.
Lua+ffi	winapi.cairopanel	Cairo panels	8a0498a	1514376893	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua+ffi	winapi.wglpanel	OpenGL panels	42fac3c	1563290898	100;1;Lua+ffi	P.D.
Lua	x-widgets		fab5dd8	1635036029	100;2;Lua	P.D.
Lua+ffi	xlib	LibX11 binding	71a2213	1577435978	1;1;Lua+ffi;linux64	P.D.
Lua	xlsxwriter	Excel XLSX file generator	v0.0.6-28-g34a34b8	1580133305	100;2;Lua	MIT
Lua+ffi	xxhash	Fast non-crypto hash	5b3143b	1634940787	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	BSD
Lua+ffi	zlib	Deflate & gzip	bcdfea0	1621250936	3;1;Lua+ffi;linux64;mingw64;osx64	ZLIB

Runtimes

luajit

LuaJIT binary

Version: 37cd010
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: MIT

terra

The Terra language

Version: 28ef189
Updated:
Type: Lua/C
License: MIT

terra2

Version: 7b26168
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

Deployment

bundle

Single-executable app deployment

Version: 6498037
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

terra.binder

Terra build system, C header generator and LuaJIT ffi binding generator

Version: 037b5c0
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Standard Libraries

glue

Assorted lengths of wire

Version: e6bc5f4
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

pp

Table serialization

Version: 7fd3c71
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

oo

Fancy object system

Version: r13-4-g41394fd
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

events

Pub/sub mixin for object systems

Version: 7e44b0e
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

coro

Symmetric coroutines

Version: ecf88e1
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

errors

Structured exceptions for Lua

Version: 8748747
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

lpeg

Parsing expression grammars

Version: 7a82d08
Updated:
Type: Lua/C
License: MIT

dollar

Version: 90b5da6
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Portable OS APIs

fs

Portable filesystem support

Version: 4b063a7
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

nw

Cross-platform windows for Lua

Version: 47a24d5
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

thread

Hi-level threads

Version: d670552
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

pthread

POSIX threads

Version: 0095f31
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: BSD

proc

Processes and IPC

Version: 19b0c5c
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

time

Time and sleeping

Version: 145ccad
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

hidapi

Signall11/hidapi ffi binding

Version: c789cc3
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: BSD

Portable UI (WIP)

ui

UI toolkit with styles and animations

Version: f074a59
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

terra.layer

HTML-like box-model layouting and rendering engine in Terra with a C API

Version: 1ced107
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.tr

Unicode text layouting and rendering engine in Terra with a C API

Version: 561f751
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

Portable 2D Graphics

cairo

Cairo graphics engine

Version: r3-118-gff9605a
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MPL/LGPL

bitmap

In-memory bitmaps

Version: 3525092
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

color

Color parsing, formatting and computation

Version: e5235d2
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

boxblur

Fast box blur

Version: b2e3938
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Native OS APIs

winapi

Win32 windows & controls

Version: 75c0ea7
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

winapi.wglpanel

OpenGL panels

Version: 42fac3c
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

winapi.cairopanel

Cairo panels

Version: 8a0498a
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

objc

Obj-C & Cocoa bridge

Version: r8-6-g70bcaa3
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

xlib

LibX11 binding

Version: 71a2213
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

2D Geometry

path2d

2D geometry in Lua

Version: 25f64fb
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

affine2d

2D affine transforms

Version: 388c040
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

box2d

Rectangle math

Version: dbe5a03
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

clipper

Polygon clipping

Version: 06c169c
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Boost

Image Formats

giflib

GIF reader

Version: 569d23e
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

libjpeg

JPEG encoding & decoding

Version: dev-58-g6f307cc
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: BSD

libpng

PNG reader

Version: bb9e742
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: LIBPNG

bmp

BMP file loading and saving

Version: 25733a9
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Unicode

utf8

UTF-8 encoding and decoding for LuaJIT

Version: 702449d
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

utf8quot

&name; parser for utf-8 strings

Version: e5f90be
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

ucdn

Unicode database and normalization

Version: 04cd599
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

Hashing

xxhash

Fast non-crypto hash

Version: 5b3143b
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: BSD

blake2

BLAKE2 hashing

Version: 925b92d
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

sha2

SHA-256/-384/-512 hashing

Version: 4b75533
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: BSD

md5

Md5 hashing

Version: e7f15c2
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

hmac

HMAC hashing

Version: e844c1a
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Compression

zlib

Deflate & gzip

Version: bcdfea0
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: ZLIB

minizip2

Minizip 2 ffi binding

Version: d0d9fcf
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: MIT

Networking

sock

Portable socket API with IOCP, epoll and kqueue for LuaJIT

Version: f7147d6
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

libtls

Version: 5fac4d7
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

libtls_bearssl

Version: 1c9a599
Updated:
Type: C
License: MIT

bearssl

Version: 6cad652
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: MIT

resolver

DNS resolver in Lua

Version: 7ab2cd8
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

http

HTTP 1.1 client & server protocol in Lua

Version: cdab2b8
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

uri

URI parsing and formatting in Lua

Version: 7bdc4e9
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

rsync

Rsync algorithm in Lua

Version: 748cb2e
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Databases

sqlpp

SQL preprocessor, postprocessor and command API

Version: d72d55f
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

mysql_client

MySQL client protocol in Lua

Version: 8e6c42f
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: BSD

Data Exchange

cjson

JSON encoding & decoding

Version: 13d2358
Updated:
Type: Lua/C
License: MIT

expat

XML parser

Version: 234375b
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

genx

XML writer

Version: f26ea9d
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

libb64

Base64 encoding & decoding

Version: 65c2f4b
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

csv

CSV parser in Lua

Version: 25c3d53
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: MIT

xlsxwriter

Excel XLSX file generator

Version: v0.0.6-28-g34a34b8
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: MIT

Templating

mustache

Logic-less templates

Version: 2239359
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

Motion

tweening

Tweening & timelines for animation

Version: d6e7693
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

easing

Easing functions

Version: 1eccf8d
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

Spell Checking

hunspell

Spell checking

Version: a3e5f2b
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MPL

Data Structures

heap

Priority queues

Version: 083af89
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

Lua Support Libs

amoeba

Cassowary constraint solver in Lua

Version: c516b97
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: MIT

eq

3rd degree equation solver

Version: 9a9e491
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

opengl

OpenGL C API

Version: 997418e
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

luastate

Lua/LuaJIT C API binding

Version: 487ff33
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

cbframe

Callback frames for luajit

Version: f7f905b
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

path

Path manipulation

Version: 5bda869
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

unixperms

UNIX permissions strings

Version: 05c8213
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

dynasm

DynASM with Lua mode

Version: d375b36
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

rangelist

Unidimensional non-overlapping selection ranges

Version: d3ec88a
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

uuid

Fast and dependency-free UUID library for LuaJIT

Version: 8979338
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: MIT

C Support Libs

pixman

Pixel manipulation

Version: 48ff067
Updated:
Type: C
License: MIT

libmariadb

MariaDB client library

Version: b4e58b1
Updated:
Type: C
License: LGPL

openssl

OpenSSL binding for LuaJIT

Version: 43e41fe
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Apache

lua-headers

Lua C API headers

Version: 0c55ac1
Updated:
Type: C
License: MIT

shm

POSIX shared memory binding

Version: 75f5841
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

llvm

LLVM + Clang binaries

Version: 6.0.1-3-g246798d
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: UI/NCSA

freetype

Freetype font engine

Version: ee65456
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: FTL/BSD

harfbuzz

Complex text shaping

Version: d569ad4
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

fribidi

Unicode BiDi algorithm

Version: ce4b4de
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: LGPL

libunibreak

Unicode line breaking

Version: 336767c
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: ZLIB/LIBPNG

pcre

Version: 84727ad
Updated:
Type: C
License: BSD

lx

Lua lexer in C with extensible Lua parser

Version: 2bebac3
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Development Tools

inspect

Table dump

Version: 98dcaac
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

cplayer

Procedural graphics & IMGUI toolkit

Version: a360bec
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

gfonts

Google Fonts font file finder

Version: f339225
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

hash_benchmark

Version: 9de73d0
Updated:
Type: other
License: Public Domain

unit

Version: 960f64e
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

testui

IMGUI for creating manual tests for UI libraries

Version: 65373b0
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

jsmin

JavaScript minification

Version: eb503b1
Updated:
Type: C
License: Good not Evil

Web Development

webb

Procedural web framework in Lua

Version: 1919d91
Updated:
Type: Resty
License: Public Domain

x-widgets

Version: fab5dd8
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

Terra Standard Libraries

terra.low

Lua+Terra standard library & flat vocabulary of tools

Version: eef4077
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.arrayview

Array view type for Terra

Version: 74e393d
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.dynarray

Dynamic array type for Terra

Version: dcc1e83
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.hashmap

Hashmap type for Terra

Version: c94bcbc
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.phf

Minimal Perfect Hash Function Generator for Lua/Terra

Version: b0434aa
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.linkedlist

Self-allocated doubly-linked list for Terra

Version: c9be54f
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.fixedfreelist

Fixed-capacity freelist for Terra

Version: fbc90d0
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.arrayfreelist

Freelist for Terra based on a dynamic array

Version: 803d5ed
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.lrucache

LRU cache for Terra, size-limited and count-limited

Version: 1855638
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.bitarray

1-D and 2-D bit array type for Terra

Version: 189ba4a
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.utf8

UTF-8 encoding and decoding in Terra

Version: f858394
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.random

Tausworthe PRNG in Terra

Version: dd59044
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

Terra Support Libs

terra.bitmap

Bitmaps for Terra

Version: 5ab3160
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.cairo

Cairo binding for Terra based on cairo 1.12.3

Version: 46e673b
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.box2d

Math for 2D rectangles defined as (x, y, w, h) where w >= 0 and h >= 0

Version: b153b9f
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

terra.boxblur

Fast bgra8 and g8 box blurs for Terra

Version: 55d25e1
Updated:
Type: Terra
License: Public Domain

mingw64-headers

Version: 35f0087
Updated:
Type: C
License: Public Domain

Package Management

luapower

Luapower package reflection library

Version: eb060a1
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

luapower_db

The luapower package database

Version: 8f551e5
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

luapower-repos

The luapower multigit meta-package

Version: c288b76
Updated:
Type: other
License: Public Domain

Help needed

libsoundio

Audio input and output

Version: 4099c90
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

videoinput

Video capturing

Version: 65e79e1
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

libexif

EXIF reader & writer

Version: 4b78bd2
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: LGPL

lz4

Extremely fast compression

Version: 9a9fec7
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: BSD

libsodium

Libsodium binding

Version: d7e136a
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: ISC

libogg

Ogg container file format

Version: a179432
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: BSD

rs232

RS232 serial communication library for LuaJIT

Version: 2135a6c
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Unmaintained

ui0

Extensible UI toolkit in Lua

Version: 28fcb16
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

tr0

Unicode text shaping and rendering

Version: 36faa15
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

linkedlist

Doubly linked lists in Lua

Version: 864709a
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

lrucache

Size-limited LRU cache in Lua

Version: 921ae1d
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

bnet

Networking library

Version: 6f205fe
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

ffi_reflect

Luajit ffi reflection

Version: 9eeeb18
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

struct

Binary packing & unpacking

Version: 2106c8f
Updated:
Type: Lua/C
License: MIT

minizip

ZIP reader & writer

Version: c3bc1ff
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

lanes

Threads support

Version: fade4b8
Updated:
Type: Lua/C
License: MIT

socket

Networking support

Version: fdccfcd
Updated:
Type: Lua/C
License: MIT

socketloop

TCP sockets with coroutines

Version: feeb360
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

luasec

Version: f0e88cf
Updated:
Type: Lua/C
License: MIT

libcurl

URL transfers

Version: 729f76b
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: MIT

nginx

Nginx server with lua-nginx-module

Version: 454c0c3
Updated:
Type: C
License: BSD

resty-core

Version: v0.1.17-7-gf04ed14
Updated:
Type: Resty
License: Public Domain

resty-lrucache

Version: v0.09-14-g3b15fe9
Updated:
Type: Resty
License: Public Domain

resty.http

HTTP client for OpenResty

Version: v0.13-8-ge6bc606
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: BSD

resty.mail

Version: v1.0.2-1-gf37cfc9
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

resty.string

Version: v0.12rc1-7-ge039c94
Updated:
Type: Lua
License: Public Domain

mysql

MySQL client library ffi binding

Version: d777be1
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Misc

ace.js

Version: 211e9bd
Updated:
Type: other
License: Public Domain

font_db

Font database for font selection

Version: b1efd16
Updated:
Type: Lua+ffi
License: Public Domain

Package	Module	Error
terra.tr	terra.tr_layoutedit	.\terra/low.t:73: terra/tr_selection.t:10: expected a struct but found nil when attempting to add method Selection.init
terra.tr	terra.tr_selection	terra/tr_selection.t:10: expected a struct but found nil when attempting to add method Selection.init
terra.tr	terra.tr_shape_word	.\terralib.lua:2817: Errors reported during typechecking.
terra.tr	terra.tr_spanedit	terra/tr_spanedit.t:37: Errors reported during function declaration.
ui	ui_calendar	.\ui_calendar.lua:9: attempt to index field 'grid' (a nil value)
ui	ui_demo1	.\ui.lua:376: attempt to call method 'font' (a nil value)
ui	ui_dropdown	.\ui_dropdown.lua:11: attempt to index field 'editbox' (a nil value)
ui	ui_editbox	.\ui_editbox.lua:7: module 'tr' not found
ui	ui_grid	.\ui_grid.lua:311: attempt to index field 'scrollbox' (a nil value)
ui	ui_list	error loading module 'ui_list' from file '.\ui_list.lua'
ui	ui_scrollbox	.\ui.lua:376: attempt to call method 'font' (a nil value)
ui	ui_slider	.\ui.lua:178: assertion failed!
hidapi	hidapi	./hidapi.lua:6: libhidapi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
llvm	llvm	./llvm.lua:16: libllvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
lx	lx	./lx.lua:8: liblx.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
lz4	lz4	./lz4.lua:149: liblz4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
terra.boxblur	boxblurlib_h	./boxblurlib_h.lua:4: libboxblurlib.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
terra.tr	terra.tr_layoutedit	./terra/low.t:73: terra/tr_selection.t:10: expected a struct but found nil when attempting to add method Selection.init
terra.tr	terra.tr_selection	terra/tr_selection.t:10: expected a struct but found nil when attempting to add method Selection.init
terra.tr	terra.tr_shape_word	./terralib.lua:2817: Errors reported during typechecking.
terra.tr	terra.tr_spanedit	terra/tr_spanedit.t:37: Errors reported during function declaration.
ui	ui_calendar	./ui_calendar.lua:9: attempt to index field 'grid' (a nil value)
ui	ui_demo1	./xlib.lua:160: assertion failed!
ui	ui_dropdown	./ui_dropdown.lua:11: attempt to index field 'editbox' (a nil value)
ui	ui_editbox	./ui_editbox.lua:7: module 'tr' not found
ui	ui_grid	./ui_grid.lua:311: attempt to index field 'scrollbox' (a nil value)
ui	ui_list	error loading module 'ui_list' from file './ui_list.lua'
ui	ui_scrollbox	./xlib.lua:140: attempt to call global 'setfenv' (a nil value)
ui	ui_slider	./ui.lua:178: assertion failed!
bnet	bnet	./bnet.lua:7: ./bnet_h.lua:208: attempt to redefine 'timeval' at line 26
bnet	bnet_h	./bnet_h.lua:208: attempt to redefine 'timeval' at line 26
hidapi	hidapi	./hidapi.lua:6: dlopen(libhidapi.dylib, 5): image not found
llvm	llvm	./llvm.lua:16: dlopen(libllvm.dylib, 5): image not found
lx	lx	./lx.lua:8: dlopen(liblx.dylib, 5): image not found
lz4	lz4	./lz4.lua:149: dlopen(liblz4.dylib, 5): image not found
terra.boxblur	boxblurlib_h	./boxblurlib_h.lua:4: dlopen(libboxblurlib.dylib, 5): image not found
terra.tr	terra.tr_layoutedit	./terra/low.t:73: terra/tr_selection.t:10: expected a struct but found nil when attempting to add method Selection.init
terra.tr	terra.tr_selection	terra/tr_selection.t:10: expected a struct but found nil when attempting to add method Selection.init
terra.tr	terra.tr_shape_word	./terralib.lua:2817: Errors reported during typechecking.
terra.tr	terra.tr_spanedit	terra/tr_spanedit.t:37: Errors reported during function declaration.
ui	ui_calendar	./ui_calendar.lua:9: attempt to index field 'grid' (a nil value)
ui	ui_demo1	./ui.lua:376: 'struct layerlib_t' has no member named 'font'
ui	ui_dropdown	./ui_dropdown.lua:11: attempt to index field 'editbox' (a nil value)
ui	ui_editbox	./ui_editbox.lua:7: module 'tr' not found
ui	ui_grid	./ui_grid.lua:311: attempt to index field 'scrollbox' (a nil value)
ui	ui_list	error loading module 'ui_list' from file './ui_list.lua'
ui	ui_scrollbox	./ui.lua:376: 'struct layerlib_t' has no member named 'font'
ui	ui_slider	./ui.lua:178: assertion failed!

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