(Posting this to the list because discussion on the list is preferred over GitHub)
Since there is discussion about building a ruby interpreter under mkroot. I decided to take a shot at building a lua interpreter under mkroot. This is as easy as easy can be. Being pure ANSI C, there are a few minor complications though. Lua needs ar to build (a previous unneeded dependency), configuration system stuff if I had to guess. And the default CC is "gcc --std=gnu99" which.... Lua is fairly small (30K LOC that compiles to ~300K statically linked with musl), simplistic, and software that aligns with some of the design principles (Having a few simple base concepts and extending them with syntax sugar to elegantly provide multi-paradigm programming instead of staking layers of "MOAR FEATURES!!!" on until the spec looks like Perl's or C++'s) but is probably out of scope for toybox if I had to guess (Although I was sure about that for the compiler before I bothered to ask). mkroot package is attached, not as a patch because I'm not really sure if this is something that would want to be added. It fit's enough that I felt like I should submit it, but then again linux already has a language in the form of the shell (And awk (and m4 and make counting the toolchain) (And bc technically (And sed if you wanna get _really_ technical))). - Oliver Webb <aquahobby...@proton.me>
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