Re: Trouble compiling Lua Socket...

[Matthew Percival <matthew@...>]

G'Day,

	I seem to now be having problems simply using Lua Socket!

	Firstly, Lua seems to ignore the paths I set.  Even if I do:
		set LUA_PATH=/usr/local/share/lua/5.0/?.lua;?.lua
as described, when I use:
		require("smtp")
I get:
		stdin:1: could not load package `smtp' from path `?;?.lua'
I have bypassed this problem by first adding:
		LUA_PATH = "/usr/local/share/lua/5.0/?.lua;"..
			   "/usr/local/share/lua/5.0/socket/?.lua;"
before calling require().  Not an elegant solution, but enough of a
bandaid to get started.  If anyone could point out what I am doing wrong
in setting Lua's path for Linux, I would love to solve this problem
properly.

	Secondly, when I do manage to get the paths correct, I get the
following error:
		/usr/local/share/lua/5.0/socket/smtp.lua:11: could not load package `base' from
		path `/usr/local/share/lua/5.0/?.lua;/usr/local/share/lua/5.0/socket/?.lua;'
When I check, I do not have any base.lua, so that makes sense.  However,
I cannot find what this is or where I get it.  I have even checked an
Ubuntu system with lua50 and luasocket packages installed, and this did
not have this file either.  When I looked at the require() lines in
smtp.lua, I found that I have not got half the files it is looking for.
Lua Socket does not list any dependencies that I could see, so I am a
little lost as to how I have managed this.

	I have been able to use Lua perfectly fine for some months now, so I
was a little surprised when these problems came up.  Hopefully someone
more familiar with the language will quickly pick up on what I am doing
wrong though: it is surely a simple newbie mistake.

	-- Matthew