A tool that uses Lua as a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. Both pure Lua scripts and HTML templates are supported and can be handled via CGI, FastCGI, mod_lua, ISAPI and other APIs.

A LUA to C binding library. [Open source, Free]

A Lua binding to the OpenGL graphics API and GLUI OpenGL widget set. [Open source, GPL]

A Web development platform for Lua with open source and binary distributions. It includes CGILua, LuaSQL and other libraries.

A debugger for Lua. [Free for pure academic, non profit use]

A Lua distribution with incorporated many useful libraries. Libraries can be loaded dynamically, or it can be built in into the interpreter.

Frequently Asked Questions about Lua

Home site; lightweight, made to extend programs, often used for general-purpose, standalone use; simple procedural syntax, powerful data description constructs use associative arrays, extensible semantics; dynamically typed, bytecode interpreted, garbage collected; great for configuration, scripting, rapid prototyping. [Open Source]

Reference Manual of the Lua programming language

An overview of Lua.

Lua-users Wiki, collaborative site for Lua programmers; Lua-l archive, searchable body of official Lua mailing list; Lua-users.org mini charter.

Lua dev tool for MacOSX. Includes Lua-Objective-C messaging interface.

GForge installation for the Lua language community. A free repository for Lua projects management, categorization, issue tracking, and statistics.

A scripting tool for Java. It allows scripts written in Lua to manipulate components developed in Java without any need for declarations or any kind of preprocessing.

A Lua extension library that provides support for the TCP and UDP transport layers within the Lua language.

A PureBasic extension (PureLibrary) and a DLL with import libraries for PureBasic, that allows execution of Lua scripts from within PureBasic applications or games. [Freeware]

A port of Lua 4.0 (plus a small IDE) for PalmOS handheld devices.

A PowerBasic wrapper for calling Lua functions.

By Roberto Ierusalimschy; 2003. It is the official book about the language, giving a solid base for any programmer who wants to use Lua.

Some comments and Lua port downloads for: Red Hat RPM, EPOC standalone SISs.

Andreas Rozek's Kua page. Lua in brief. Lua distributions. Modules and examples. Applications.

A binding Tk to Lua. [Freeware]

Tool to simplify integrating C/C++ code with Lua, automatically generates binding code to access C/C++ features from Lua; maps C/C++ constants, external variables, functions, classes, and methods to Lua, via Lua API and tag method facilities. [Freeware]

A internet game platform that combines Lua, OpenGL and OpenAL.