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allow using system lua#186

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allow using system lua#186
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This allows using the zig bindings with system lua

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can you add lua 5.5 support, which was just released?

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Sorry, my distro doesn't have it yet so I can't test it, and ziglua itself doesn't support it yet either

Comment thread build.zig
const zlua = b.addModule("zlua", .{
const zlua = if (system) b.addModule("zlua", .{
.root_source_file = b.path("src/lib.zig"),
.target = target,

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we can't cross compile when using system lua so this should be fine

Comment thread build.zig
.lua53 => zlua.linkSystemLibrary("lua5.3", .{ .preferred_link_mode = link_mode }),
.lua54 => zlua.linkSystemLibrary("lua5.4", .{ .preferred_link_mode = link_mode }),
.luajit => zlua.linkSystemLibrary("luajit", .{ .preferred_link_mode = link_mode }),
.luau => @panic("luau not supported for system lua"),

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the luau package in my distro doesn't come with libraries or headers

@robbielyman robbielyman merged commit a3c23ef into natecraddock:main Jan 5, 2026
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dchinmay2 commented Jan 6, 2026

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@robbielyman can this be backported to a branch that works with zig 0.15?

robbielyman added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 7, 2026
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@p00f yup, just did in dca1800

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thank you!

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