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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Installing Lua 5.2.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4

"Where's the C compiler" ... "How do I build for Mac?" ... Here's how I've just done the job on a newly set up system ...

1. Download and install XCode (the Mac OS Development environment) from the Apple Store. It's free of charge.

2. Install command line tools - within XCode select from menu bar
• Xcode
• Preferences
• Downloads
• Command Line Tools
• Install
and you should now have gcc

3. Download Lua from http://www.lua.org/download.html

4. from a terminal window, unpack and build Lua
• tar xf lua-5.2.2.tar
• cd lua-5.2.2
• make macosx

5. Install it
• sudo make install

6. Test it - here's a sample session

WomanWithCat:lua-5.2.2 grahamellis$ lua
Lua 5.2.2 Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print "Lua is a great language"
Lua is a great language
> print 6 + 7
stdin:1: syntax error near '6'
> print (6+7)
13
> ^D
WomanWithCat:lua-5.2.2 grahamellis$


7. Book your training course - we offer course Lua courses for newcomers to programming (Learning to program in Lua) and for those with prior experience of other languages (Lua Programming). The next public course starts in mid-June ... if you're reading this article in our archive, please click on the course links to give you next dates.

* We train on Lua for other platforms too ;-)
* If you have a group of delegates, please ask about having us run a private course for you.




P.S. Most of the other languages we teach are already installed as standard as part of current OS X (the process above has added C and C++ compilers too). Here are the versions:

  WomanWithCat:~ grahamellis$ ruby -v
  ruby 1.8.7 (2011-12-28 patchlevel 357) [universal-darwin11.0]
  
  WomanWithCat:~ grahamellis$ perl -v
  This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 3 (v5.12.3) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
  
  WomanWithCat:~ grahamellis$ php -v
  PHP 5.3.10 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Feb 21 2012 15:30:55)
  
  WomanWithCat:~ grahamellis$tclsh
  % puts $tcl_version
  8.5
  
  WomanWithCat:~ grahamellis$ gcc -v
  gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
  
  WomanWithCat:~ grahamellis$ python
  Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Aug 5 2011, 03:30:24)

Upcoming public course details - [here]
(written 2013-05-25, updated 2013-05-26)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
U113 - Installing Lua
  [1632] Lua - a powerful, up and coming scripting language - (2008-05-05)
  [2461] Luac - getting lua to start fast by precompiling - (2009-10-20)


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