luavm

Lua Version Manager for Windows.

• LuaVM is a simple installer contains prebuilt Lua and LuaJIT binaries with configured LuaRocks.
• LuaVM is a command line tool make it easy switch between Lua versions.

Install

1. Download installer from GitHub or Bintray.
2. Double click to install or form command line LuaVM-x.y.z-vs[2015|2013]-x[64|86].exe /verysilent /dir=path\to\install.

Examples appveyor.yml config:

install:
  - appveyor DownloadFile https://dl.bintray.com/xpol/luavm/LuaVM-0.4.0-vs2015-x64.exe -FileName LuaVM-vs2015-x64.exe
  - LuaVM-vs2015-x64.exe /verysilent
  - set PATH=%LocalAppData%\LuaVM;%PATH%
  - luavm use 5.3

Usage

List Lua versions:

luavm list

Use specified Lua version:

luavm use

Eg.

luavm use 5.1

Then lua.exe for Lua 5.1 is in current and future cmd session's PATH. For LuaJIT versions there is also luajit.exe in PATH.

Development

Prerequisites

1. Install Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio 2013 is recommended.
2. Install CMake.
3. Install InnoSetup and make sure iscc is in your PATH.

Build

To build and create installer in the project root directory:

cmake -H. -Bbuild -G"Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"
cmake --build build --config Release --target installer

Where cmake generator can be one of:

• Visual Studio 10 2010
• Visual Studio 10 2010 Win64
• Visual Studio 11 2012
• Visual Studio 11 2012 Win64
• Visual Studio 12 2013
• Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64
• Visual Studio 14 2015
• Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64
• Visual Studio 9 2008
• Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64