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 :)

Installing lua¶

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

sudo port install lua

On Ubuntu 10.04:

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

On CentOS 5+

yum install lua-devel

Getting the source¶

While writing this, the most current version is 0.9. Get it!
On Mac OS X:

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

On Linux:

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

Alternativly, you can take the source on Kervala's repository

svn checkout http://svn.kervala.net/utils/packaging/luabind

That version includes a cmake config and allows to build a debian package.

Extract the source¶

tar zxf luabind-0.9.tar.gz

Building and installing¶

All CMake platforms¶

If you downloaded sources from http://svn.kervala.net/utils/packaging/luabind, you just need to type

cd luabind
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

# with STLport, append: -DWITH_STLPORT=ON
# in static, append: -DWITH_STATIC=ON

make
sudo make install

On Ubuntu 10.04:¶

install boost build:

sudo apt-get install boost-build libboost-dev

and compile / install with the following command:

sudo bjam --prefix=/usr/local install

On Gentoo¶

if boost-build package is not installed:

sudo emerge boost-build -av

and compile /install with the following command: (replace 1_41 by your version of bjam)

sudo bjam-1_41 --prefix=/usr/local install

check if lib is named correctly.

ls /usr/local/lib/libluabind*.so

if lib si named libluabindd.so create a symlink

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libluabindd.so /usr/local/lib/libluabind.so

On Mac OS X:¶

Kervala's repository works great on Mac OS X as well.
Be sure to build a static library (-DWITH_STATIC=ON), else strange errors might occur. (see #1212)

svn checkout http://svn.kervala.net/utils/packaging/luabind
cd luabind
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DWITH_STATIC=ON ..
make
sudo make install

Thats all¶

Hope that works for you.
Have fun!