make install_lua failing on Linux Mint 18.2 about e

[hellerve]

Which version of GCC did you compile it with?

[hellerve]

I just pushed a possible fix into the issue_23 branch. Could you tell me whether that fixes it?

Yes your fix is working, but now the make is failing with a bunch of undefined reference to lua_* see make output
gcc version:5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)

[hellerve]

I assume that that’s an error on my side: I’m linking the vendored Lua, but not actually compiling it; this doesn’t make much of a difference on systems that have Lua installed, but I guess you don’t have it?

Yes I don't had Lua installed, but now I tried to compile first the bundled lua soruce (with the make generic and with the make linux there is no difference, the editor's compilation is failing) ,and I tried install Lua5.3 before compiling, and it's failing as well. Any idea?

[hellerve]

I added Lua compilation to the Makefile and it works for me now if I uninstall Lua. Could you try pulling and compiling again (from issue_23)? Sorry for the hassle.

Well, I think you are in the right way to fix this bug. It's still failing, but I if I'm correct these errors is linking errors. make output

[hellerve]

Okay, so I needed to introduce two more options to the Makefile to get this to work. sigh

The magic incantation for me to get this to compile is: make install_lua LUA_OPT=linux LUA_FLAGS="-lm -ldl". I also needed to install libreadline on Ubuntu, I’m not sure whether that’s also needed on Mint and whether we can compile Lua without readline support.

If you pull and try my incantation it might just work.

Your incantation is works! And yes the libreadline is must be installed to compile lua. This is needed I think on every debian based distos. Thank you for your hard work! Keep it up, this will be a pretty good editor.
Regards, Mark

[hellerve]

Thank you! I’m happy this worked out in the end, now I just have to document it.