Lua CLI Starter

Build standalone executable CLIs with Lua

Overview

This project acts as a starting point for building command line apps with Lua. It comes with a simple "Hello World" app that demonstrates some basic argument parsing.

Usage

To use this repo...

• Clone the repo to your machine
• Rename /src/app.lua to /src/{your app name}.lua
• Replace all instances of app in the Makefile and all scripts with your app name
• Then build your app inside of /src!

When you want to build the app, simply run make build. This will create an executable inside /build

References

• LuaRocks - Lua package manager
• Lua Static - Build executables from Lua modules