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h1. Installing Luabind on Linux, Mac OS X, ...

Since luabind is not available from macports (I think certain Linux Distributions do not provide it too), here the short summary how to install luabind on a Unix like system :)

h2. Installing lua

To build luabind, you need liblua. Install it, for example on a Mac using macports:

<pre>

sudo port install lua

</pre>

On Ubuntu 10.04:

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sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-0-dev

</pre>

On CentOS 5+

<pre>

yum install lua

</pre>

h2. Getting the source

While writing this, the most current version is 0.9. Get it!

On Mac OS X:

<pre>

curl -O http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/luabind/luabind/0.9/luabind-0.9.tar.gz

</pre>

On Linux:

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wget http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/luabind/luabind/0.9/luabind-0.9.tar.gz

</pre>

h2. Extract the source

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tar zxf luabind-0.9.tar.gz

</pre>

h2. Building and installing

h3. On Ubuntu 10.04:

install boost build:

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sudo apt-get install boost-build libboost1.40-dev

</pre>

and compile / install with the following command:

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sudo bjam --prefix=/usr/local install

</pre>

h3. On Mac OS X:

Bjam might be annoying and complicated, use this small build script. Put it in the luabind root directory.

This script is configured for a Mac OS X having lua and boost installed in /opt/local (using macports).

Please adjust LUA_INCLUDE_DIR, LUA_LIBRARY_DIR and LIB_EXTENSION if you have a different setup.

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#!/bin/sh

LUA_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/include

LUA_LIBRARY_DIR=/opt/local/lib

LIB_EXTENSION=dylib

rm -rf build

mkdir -p build/src

for i in src/*.cpp

do 

	gcc -I$LUA_INCLUDE_DIR -I. -fPIC -c $i -o build/$i.o

done

gcc -shared -o build/libluabind.$LIB_EXTENSION build/src/*.o \

	-L$LUA_LIBRARY_DIR -lstdc++ -llua

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To install the thing, just copy lib and header into the preferred path. For example:

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sudo cp -r luabind /usr/local/include

sudo cp build/libluabind.* /usr/local/lib

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h2. Thats all

Hope that works for you. 

Have fun!