Having trouble compiling vim with lua in Linux

[JohanTan]

Cannot use homebrew option in linux. Tried recompiling vim with Lua and got no luck. Google didn't help either because seemed nobody is using this compilation option. Is there any tutorial that would help this process?

[Shougo]

This is not neocomplete issues...

[andrewfaria]

I'm having the same issue. Some help compiling vim with if_lua would be very helpful.

I've cloned the vim distro and made sure to use the v7-3.885 tag, ran ./configure --enable-luainterp=yes compiled and got the correct vim version but still receiving the neocomplete if_lua not enabled error message.

[Shougo]

I've cloned the vim distro and made sure to use the v7-3.885 tag, ran ./configure --enable-luainterp=yes compiled and got the correct vim version but still receiving the neocomplete if_lua not enabled error message.

You should check ./configure output.
I think the configure fails lua compilation.

[lookforit]

I've cloned the vim distro and made sure to use the v7-3.885 tag, ran ./configure --enable-luainterp=yes compiled and got the correct vim version but still receiving the neocomplete if_lua not enabled error message.

I met with the same problem in compelling vim 7.4, Ubuntu.
I set the option./configure --enable-luainterp=yes or ./configure --enable-luainterp=dynamic,
but :ver output always says '- lua'...
Some guideline will be helpful.
@JohanTan @myimedia

[Shougo]

I think you must install Lua development package.
You should check "./configure output". It contains warning messages.

[crazymaster]

How about setting the option --enable-fail-if-missing?
It outputs error messages.

I recommend to set the option --with-luajit in Vim 7.4
So you should run this.
./configure --enable-luainterp --with-luajit --enable-fail-if-missing

[JohanTan]

From my experience, this is how it will work (only tested on Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-dev
copy all files from /usr/include/lua5.1/ to /usr/include/lua5.1/include/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so /usr/local/lib/liblua.so

Go to vim source folder:
./configure --with-features=huge --enable-cscope --enable-pythoninterp=yes --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-multibyte --enable-fontset --disable-gui --disable-netbeans --enable-luainterp=yes --with-lua-prefix=/usr/include/lua5.1 --enable-largefile
make
sudo make install

[lookforit]

it works now,thank you all!

[lookforit]

I recommend to set the option --with-luajit in Vim 7.4
So you should run this.
./configure --enable-luainterp --with-luajit --enable-fail-if-missing

what's the difference between luajitand the ordinary way? Does luajit have a better performance?

[Shougo]

Yes.

[crazymaster]

Does luajit have a better performance?

Standards: if_lua accelerates Vim scripts

[lookforit]

I recommend to set the option --with-luajit in Vim 7.4
So you should run this.
./configure --enable-luainterp --with-luajit --enable-fail-if-missing

I'm trying to compel vim with lua-jit and setting optiions like above ,
but console says configure error:could not config lua
I have lua 5.1installed already.
So what's the problem?
@crazymaster

[Shougo]

I'm trying to compel vim with lua-jit and setting optiions like above ,
but console says configure error:could not config lua
I have lua 5.1installed already.

You must install "luajit" package from apt not "lua 5.1".

[lookforit]

You must install "luajit" package from apt not "lua 5.1".

I'm sorry I didn't notice that......
Here I installed the luajit and libluajit-5.1-dev with the info:
LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta9 -- Copyright (c ) 2005-2011 Mike Pall.http://luajit.org

Run ./configer --enable-luainterp --with-luajit and nothing changed.
Below are output summary:

checking --enable-luainterp argument... yes checking --with-lua-prefix argument... no checking LUA_PREFIX environment var... not set, default to /usr checking --with-luajit... yes checking for luajit... no checking if lua.h can be found in /usr/include... no checking if lua.h can be found in /usr/include/lua... no