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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Lua linkage with CMake

From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:43:48 -0400
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Tony Trinh <tony19@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's possible that ${wireshark-src}/cmake/modules/FindLUA.cmake is not
> properly detecting Lua 5.2 on your system. Check the path defined by
> LUA_LIBRARY (and check LUA_INCLUDE_DIR while you're at it), using these
> commands:
>
>    $ cd ${wireshark-src}
>    $ cmake -LA | grep LUA
>
> The output should look something like this:
>
> ENABLE_LUA:BOOL=ON
> LUA_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH=/Users/tony/src/lua-5.2.1/src/build/include
> LUA_LIBRARIES:STRING=/Users/tony/src/lua-5.2.1/src/build/lib/liblua.a
> LUA_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/Users/tony/src/lua-5.2.1/src/build/lib/liblua.a
>
> You can either fix the detection script, or manually edit your path
> variables (I use `ccmake`):
>
> Enter the CMake configuration with: $ ccmake .
> Press 't' to toggle "Advanced mode" (to show the advanced variables)
> Verify (and edit) LUA_INCLUDE_DIR, LUA_LIBRARIES, and LUA_LIBRARY. For the
> library paths, enter the full path to liblua.a for Lua 5.2.

Thanks a bunch, that was exactly what I needed to do - the include
path was pointing to 5.1 for some reason, while the link paths were
correctly pointing to 5.2. Everything works now.

Evan