Building LuaJIT

Building LuaJIT

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build LuaJIT version 2.1 on IBM z Systems for following distributions:

• SLES (11 SP4, 12, 12 SP1, 12 SP2)
• RHEL (7.1, 7.2, 7.3)
• Ubuntu (16.04, 16.10)

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.
• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writeable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

##Step 1: Building and Installing LuaJIT

####1.1) Install dependencies

• SLES (11 SP4, 12, 12 SP1, 12 SP2)

  sudo zypper update
  sudo zypper install git gcc make

• RHEL (6.8,7.1,7.2,7.3)

  sudo yum install gcc make git

• Ubuntu (16.04 , 16.10)

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install git gcc make

####1.2) Download LuaJIT

cd /<source_root>/
git clone https://github.com/linux-on-ibm-z/LuaJIT.git
cd LuaJIT
git checkout v2.1

####1.3) Build and Install LuaJIT

cd /<source_root>/LuaJIT/
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -s luajit-2.1.0-beta2 /usr/local/bin/luajit

##References: http://luajit.org/