https://www.ryanprior.com/tags/luarocks/ Recent content in Luarocks on Ryan Prior Hugo en-us rprior@protonmail.com (Ryan Prior) rprior@protonmail.com (Ryan Prior) <a href="https://www.ryanprior.com/license">please share–see license info</a> Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:15:38 +0000 https://www.ryanprior.com/posts/lua-dependencies-with-guix-and-luarocks/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:15:38 +0000rprior@protonmail.com (Ryan Prior) https://www.ryanprior.com/posts/lua-dependencies-with-guix-and-luarocks/ <p> I set out with a simple goal: use Guix to install what I can for my Lua project, then let LuaRocks handle the rest, installing local dependencies into the <code class="verbatim">.luarocks</code> directory. I began full of hope that these would work together seamlessly, but things did not go so smoothly. Hours later I had resolved five errors:</p> <ul> <li><code class="verbatim">linux/limits.h: No such file or directory</code></li> <li><code class="verbatim">openssl/crypto.h not found</code></li> <li><code class="verbatim">ld: unrecognized option &#39;-Wl,-rpath,...&#39;</code></li> <li><code class="verbatim">gcc</code> worked, <code class="verbatim">gcc-toolchain</code> didn&#39;t (because they provide different major versions of <code class="verbatim">gcc</code>!)</li> <li><code class="verbatim">undefined symbol: lua_newuserdata</code></li> </ul> <p>Every problem turned out to be a different mismatch between assumptions made by different tools.</p>