1*572c4311SfengbojiangREADME for Lua 5.1 2*572c4311Sfengbojiang 3*572c4311SfengbojiangSee INSTALL for installation instructions. 4*572c4311SfengbojiangSee HISTORY for a summary of changes since the last released version. 5*572c4311Sfengbojiang 6*572c4311Sfengbojiang* What is Lua? 7*572c4311Sfengbojiang ------------ 8*572c4311Sfengbojiang Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending 9*572c4311Sfengbojiang applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone 10*572c4311Sfengbojiang language. Lua is free software. 11*572c4311Sfengbojiang 12*572c4311Sfengbojiang For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ . 13*572c4311Sfengbojiang For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html . 14*572c4311Sfengbojiang 15*572c4311Sfengbojiang Lua has been used in many different projects around the world. 16*572c4311Sfengbojiang For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html . 17*572c4311Sfengbojiang 18*572c4311Sfengbojiang* Availability 19*572c4311Sfengbojiang ------------ 20*572c4311Sfengbojiang Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes. 21*572c4311Sfengbojiang See COPYRIGHT and http://www.lua.org/license.html for details. 22*572c4311Sfengbojiang Lua can be downloaded at http://www.lua.org/download.html . 23*572c4311Sfengbojiang 24*572c4311Sfengbojiang* Installation 25*572c4311Sfengbojiang ------------ 26*572c4311Sfengbojiang Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known 27*572c4311Sfengbojiang platforms that have an ANSI C compiler. In most Unix-like platforms, simply 28*572c4311Sfengbojiang do "make" with a suitable target. See INSTALL for detailed instructions. 29*572c4311Sfengbojiang 30*572c4311Sfengbojiang* Origin 31*572c4311Sfengbojiang ------ 32*572c4311Sfengbojiang Lua is developed at Lua.org, a laboratory of the Department of Computer 33*572c4311Sfengbojiang Science of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro 34*572c4311Sfengbojiang in Brazil). 35*572c4311Sfengbojiang For more information about the authors, see http://www.lua.org/authors.html . 36*572c4311Sfengbojiang 37*572c4311Sfengbojiang(end of README) 38