Re: Lua 5.1, MacOSX, and readline

[Klaus Ripke <paul-lua@...>]

hi

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 11:03:14AM -0700, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> I'm trying to get Lua 5.1 working with readline on MacOS X (10.4.5).  
> Unfortunately, it's been over 10 years since I programmed in C, and  
> though
>  * I've seen posts claiming that MacOS 10.4 has readline installed  
> by default...
well at least a 10.4.5 upgraded from 10.4.3 (with XCode) has

$ ls -l /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib 
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  13 Jul 13  2005 /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib -> libedit.dylib

Is that missing on your system?

>  * I've downloaded and built gnu readline 5.1 successfully to get it  
> working with Ruby's 'irb'
>  * I've tried the make command listed here: http://lua-users.org/ 
> lists/lua-l/2006-01/msg00200.html
you got the mail by Gus, no?

to be even more detailled, in src/Makefile change:

macosx:
  $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_USE_MACOSX
# use this on Mac OS X 10.4
# $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_MACOSX -DLUA_USE_READLINE" MYLIBS="-lreadline"

to:
macosx:
# $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS=-DLUA_USE_MACOSX
# use this on Mac OS X 10.4
  $(MAKE) all MYCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_MACOSX -DLUA_USE_READLINE" MYLIBS="-lreadline"

then
make macosx

thats all


>  * I've tried copying the readline-5.1 src into lua-5.1/src/readline  
> and lua-5.1/readline, while adding the LUA_USE_READLINE #define to  
> luaconf.h
> ...all of the above failed. Really I'm just stabbing in the dark.
failed how?

> Can someone provide the explicit instructions that someone who hasn't  
> used *any* compiled language since 1998 needs to build lua 5.1 with  
> readline support under MacOS X v10.4.5? I don't really care if it's  
> using Apple's own readline, pseudo-readline lib, or building and  
> using gnu readline 4.0 or 5.1. I'd just like the fscking up-arrow key  
> to work in the command-line lua interpreter. (Getting the 'advenced'  
> readline patch to work for fun autocompletion is an optional bonus.)
It's working like a charme.


cheers
Klaus