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I've done some investigation and experimentation, and have a proof of concept using LuaRocks (and some notes) from an rlua executable: https://github.com/jugglerchris/rlua_luarocks

The example behaves enough like a lua binary to install its own copy of LuaRocks and use that (using builtin-lua54). That's not the only way - it would be possible to use a stock Lua install (with matching version) for LuaRocks, and point to the installed libraries from the application using rlua.

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Hi,
I guess the discussions might be a slightly better place than issues, but this is fine (and see below).

rlua wraps a stock Lua interpreter (https://www.lua.org/), so any Lua libraries should be available (for example https://luarocks.org/, which includes lua-http).

What's missing is documentation on using (for example) LuaRocks with rlua. I think it should be straightforward (especially when using one of the system-lua options) - I will treat this issue as a documentation bug.

Note that rlua by default disables loading non-pure-Lua libraries unless you call Lua::unsafe_new_with_flags and don't include the LOAD_WRAPPERS and REMOVE_LOADLIB flags.

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Oh my bad! I totally forgot github discussions were even a thing. I'll rename the issue more appropriately now that it's gonna be regarded as a documentation bug.

I'm using the builtin 5.4 lua option, because I don't want to make people have to install lua just to get the program to work. Since currently there is no documentation on it, how would I use LuaRocks with rlua?

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