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lua getting started getting started what is it installing learning getting help tools supporting live demo site map português welcome lua is a powerful and fast programming language that is easy to learn and use and to embed into your application lua is designed to be a lightweight embeddable scripting language it is used for all sorts of applications from games to web applications and image processing see the about page for a detailed description of lua and some reasons why you should choose lua see what lua programs look and feel like in a live demo learning a good place to start learning lua is the book programming in lua available in paperback and as an e book the first edition is freely available online see also course notes based on this book the official definition of the lua language is given in the reference manual see the documentation page and the wiki for more getting help our community is friendly and will most probably help you if you need just visit the mailing list the chat room and stackoverflow if you need help in portuguese join the lua br mailing list and visit pt stackoverflow see also the faq the community maintained wiki and luafaq and the much longer ufaq tools if you need to complement the standard lua libraries to handle more complex tasks visit luarocks the main repository of lua modules see also awesome lua a curated list of quality lua packages and resources the lua users wiki lists many user contributed addons for lua supporting you can help to support the lua project by buying a book published by lua org and by making a donation you can also help to spread the word about lua by buying lua products at zazzle installing use a live demo to play with lua if you don t want to install anything on your computer to run lua programs on your computer you ll need a standalone lua interpreter and perhaps some additional lua libraries pre compiled lua libraries and executables are available at luabinaries use your favorite text editor to write your lua programs make sure to save your programs as plain text if you want an ide try zerobrane studio if you use linux or macos lua is either already installed on your system or there is a lua package for it make sure you get the latest release of lua currently 5 5 0 lua is also quite easy to build from source as explained below building from source lua is very easy to build and install just download it and follow the instructions in the package here is a simple terminal session that downloads the current release of lua and builds it in common platforms curl l r o https www lua org ftp lua 5 5 0 tar gz tar zxf lua 5 5 0 tar gz cd lua 5 5 0 make all test if you don t have curl try wget if you use windows and want to build lua from source there are detailed instructions in the wiki embedding to embed lua into your c or c program you ll need the lua headers to compile your program and a lua library to link with it if you re getting a ready made lua package for your platform you ll probably need the development package as well otherwise just download lua and add its source directory to your project if you need help embedding lua in your program check out the lua integration guide by marc balmer last update tue feb 3 09 56 00 utc 2026