In the Python world, we have a tool called virtual-env for creating self-contained directories (aka virtual environments) with a python installation and package management.
I missed this when using Turbo, so I made a simple virtual-env tool for working with Turbo and LuaJIT. Though not as powerful as the Python tool, it’s more than enough to set up a development environment for developing Turbo applications (or just Lua applications with LuaJIT for that matter).
The script has it’s own git repo at https://github.com/enotodden/turbo-virtual-env.
Features:
- Installs LuaJIT, Turbo and LuaRocks in a self-contained directory/virtual enviroment
- Creates an activate script like the one the Python tool has for sourcing in the shell.
- Optionally reads a ‘requirements’ file and passes each line to luarocks install
- Optional Turbo Development mode (--turbo-dev) that creates an environment to
work on the code from an existing Turbo source tree.
Installation:
curl https://raw.github.com/enotodden/turbo-virtual-env/master/turbo-virtual-env > /some/where/in/PATH/turbo-virtual-env
chmod +x /some/where/in/PATH/turbo-virtual-env
Basic usage:
turbo-virtual-env --create /path/to/my/environment
More real-world-like example:
This example shows how to create a new virtual environment with turbo-virtual-env.
That’s it, hopefully this can be a useful tool for people hacking on Turbo or developing applications with LuaJIT.