SimGrid requires Lua 5.3; it will not work with Lua 5.2 or Lua 5.1,
-as Lua 5.3 breaks backwards compatibility.
+as Lua 5.3 breaks backwards compatibility.
+Version 5.3.2, 5.3.3 or any 5.3.X are ok, though.
-However, installing Lua 5.3 is easy. (If you're an administrator)
+However, installing Lua 5.3 is easy. (If you are an administrator of your machine)
Step 1: Go to http://www.lua.org/download.html and download the 5.3 package.
Step 3: cd into the new directory
-Step 4: Apply the patch in "<simgrid-source-dir>/contrib/lua/lualib.patch" to the
+Step 4: Apply the patch in "<simgrid-source-dir>/tool/lualib.patch" to the
lua source:
For instance, if you unpacked the lua sourcecode to /tmp/lua-5.3.1, use
the following commands:
- cp contrib/lua/lualib.patch /tmp/lua-5.3.1
+ cp tools/lualib.patch /tmp/lua-5.3.1
cd /tmp/lua-5.3.1/
patch -p1 < lualib.patch
-Step 5: make <platform>, for instance "make linux"
+Step 5: make linux
Step 6: sudo make install
-Step 7: Run ccmake (or supply the config option to cmake) to enable Lua in SimGrid. Done!
+Step 7: Go back to the SimGrid source, and run ccmake again. Try removing CMakeCache.txt if it still complains about Lua being not found.
