Trouble installing/compiling lua on macosx

Question

I have been attempting to compile/install Lua on Snow Leopard. I have changed the target platform in the Makefile.std to macosx and I still get the following issue:

sudo make -f Makefile.std macosx

make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'macosx'. Stop
make: *** [macsox] Error 2

I also changed the target of the same Makefile.std file in the src directory.

Is there something I'm missing here?

I have tried "make macosx" amongst other variations...

This should be easy.

Answer 1

Did you download the source from lua.org? The official distribution does not contain a Makefile.std. Doing "make macosx" should just work. Get the official tarball.

Answer 2

Same "geo" as above (login troubles).

LHF, thank you. You are my hero today.

I thought I downloaded the tarball from Lua.org, odd. Guess not...

The tarball was " lua5_1_4_Sources.tar.gz"

All is compiled and good now. Thanks again.

Answer 3

Note also that there are Lua packages in MacPorts and Fink.

Answer 4

I am getting the same problem with source from Lua.org - lua-5.1.4.tar.gz

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bash-3.2$ sudo make macosx install

--compiles OK--

make: * No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

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Where should such a rule exist and what should it say?

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