Compiling VLC on Linux: Error couldnt find Lua

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I am trying to compile VLC for Linux. When I run the configure script, I am getting the error message

configure: error: Could not find lua. Lua is needed for some interfaces (rc, telnet, http) as well as many other custom scripts. Use --disable-lua to ignore this error.

I have lua on my system. I ran lua -v and got

Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

whereis lua gives

/usr/bin/lua /usr/lib/lua /usr/share/lua /usr/share/man/man1/lua.1.gz

Which looks to be a standard location. Any ideas on why configure isn't picking up lua?

Where should the headers be? I checked in /usr/include/ without luck. — bobby, Mar 29 '12 at 12:36
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=lua-devel — ecle, Mar 29 '12 at 12:38
Thank you it works now.. Please post an answer so that I can accept it — bobby, Mar 29 '12 at 12:44

score 29 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '15 at 08:05

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On Debian based

$ apt-get install lua5.2 liblua5.2-dev

Worked for me

answered Oct 08 '15 at 08:05

Pierre de LESPINAY

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I first installed the same but with 5.3 with no luck. With 5.2, it passed indeed! – Shautieh Sep 04 '18 at 14:45

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '12 at 13:15

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As mentioned by Not_a_Golfer, you need Lua header/library files

answered Mar 29 '12 at 13:15

ecle

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On Ubuntu the package is called libluaX.Y-dev, e.g. liblua5.2-dev – andrsmllr Feb 09 '21 at 14:47

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 26 '20 at 22:21

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Fix for rpm based systems:

sudo dnf install lua-devel

answered Dec 26 '20 at 22:21

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