List of Available FFI Bindings

Please note that most developers prefer to only bind to the few library calls they actually need. E.g. an rmdir() binding is just a single line with the LuaJIT FFI. And a simple binding to e.g. zlib takes only two dozen lines, see the FFI Tutorial. You can find many examples for this floating around on the net.

The following list only shows larger or somewhat comprehensive library bindings:

Core OS Libraries

• ljsyscall: Linux system calls.

• luapower/winapi: Win32 API

• luapower/objc: Objective-C & Cocoa bridge

• LJIT2Win32: Core Windows libraries.

• ljf-com: Microsoft COM.

• LJIT2RPi: VideoCore of Raspberry Pi.

• TINN: Windows API Sets, includes a shell.

• lua-resty-fileinfo: libmagic.

Databases

• luajit-mysql: MySQL.

• luapower/mysql: MySQL.

• LJIT2Sophia: Sophia.

• lsqlite3-ffi: SQLite.

• LJIT2SQLite: SQLite.

• LJSQLite3: SQLite3.

• mongolua: MongoDB and BSON library.

• luajit-unqlite: UnQLite.

Graphics

• glua: OpenGL/GLUT.

• LuaJIT-GLFW: OpenGL and GLFW.

• luajit-glfw: GLFW v3.1.0

• LJIT2Khronos: Khronos (OpenGL, EGL, OpenCL, OpenVG)

• luapower/cairo: cairo.

• luapower/clipper: clipper.

• luapower/giflib: giflib.

• luapower/nanojpeg: nanojpeg.

• luapower/libjpeg: libjpeg. Comes with libjpeg-turbo binaries.

• luapower/freetype: freetype.

Audio & Video

• openal-lua-ffi: OpenAL.

• wavpack-lua-ffi: Wavpack.

• libsndfile-lua-ffi: libsndfile.

• mad-lua-ffi: MAD (MPEG Audio Decoder).

• ffmpeg-lua-ffi: ffmpeg.

• LJIT2X264: X264

Messaging & Events

• lua-zmq: ZeroMQ.

• lzmq: ZeroMQ.

• libev: libev.

• fend: epoll.

• epoll_ffi: epoll.

Networking

• luajit-ffi-enet: Enet.

Encoding & Decoding

• luajit-msgpack-pure: MessagePack.

• iconv-lua-ffi: iconv.

• LJIT2Http_Parser: HTTP parser.

• luapower/expat: expat XML parser.

• luapower/genx: genx XML generator.

• lua-resty-libcjson: (cJSON) JSON encoder / decoder.

• lua-resty-hoedown: Markdown and SmartyPants parser.

Crypto

• lua-libssh: libssh (OpenSSH).

• LJIT2WinCNG: WinCNG.

• luapower/md5: MD5.

• luapower/sha2: SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512.

• lua-resty-scrypt: Scrypt (password) hashing.

• lua-bcrypt: LuaJIT FFI binding for OpenBSD bcrypt (only usable on OpenBSD)

Compression

• luapower/zlib: zlib.

• luapower/minizip: minizip.

• lua-resty-snappy: snappy.

• ljlz4: lz4.

Game Engines

• allua: Allegro 5.

Cross-language Bridges

• TLC (Tiny Lua Cocoa bridge): Objective-C bridge.

Unicode

• luapower/libunibreak: unicode line breaking and word breaking.

Miscellaneous

• ufo: Precompiled binaries for OSX/Windows and other platforms. Bindings for: Cairo, Pixman, SDL 1.3, zlib, libpng, libbz2, ZeroMQ, Expat, Freetype, GLFW, APR, AntTweakBar, OpenGL, OpenCL.

• luapower/hunspell - hunspell (spell checking)

• luajit-tcc: Tiny C Compiler