List of Available Packages

As Lua is a very succinct language, with a minimum of pre-installed libraries, much of the power available to a Lua programmer comes from performing interop calls to external libraries. LuaJIT in particular, provides excellent support for calling external libraries. If what you want is access to a pre-compiled library that is on your target system, then you want to use a FFI Bindings library.

If what you want instead is code that is written 100% in Lua, with no additional library dependencies, then you might want to grab one of the packages listed here.

The criteria are:

• 100% LuaJIT code
• No dependencies on external libraries

Whether your use case is greatly improved through usage of a native package depends on what your criteria are. One of the key benefits might simply be that you do not have to carry and maintain a separate library, written in a different language than Lua.

Encoding & Decoding

• luajit-msgpack-pure: MessagePack.
• luajit-bson: BSON

Encryption

• lrc4: RC4 stream cipher

Standard Functions

• LAPHLibs: various functions, including utf-8, crc, md5, streams, xml
• luapower/utf8: utf-8 basics
• Lua Fun: functional programming library optimized for tracing JIT

System libraries

• LJSyscall: Linux system interfaces
• LJLinenoise: Line editing using LJSyscall (port of linenoise)
• luapower/stdio: standard i/o with buffers

Numerical libraries

• Rclient: Interfaces LuaJIT with the R language via Rserve

Date Time libraries

• Time: dates and periods according to the Gregorian calendar

Data structures

• slice: array slices
• lds - LuaJIT Data Structures: STL-like containers such as Vector and Queue (hashes and trees planned)
• luapower/ringbuffer: bidirectional ring buffers
• luapower/heap: priority queues

Graphics

• luapower/affine2d: 2D affine transformations
• luapower/bitmap: bitmap conversions
• luapower/bmp: BMP file loading and saving

Bundles

• UFO - includes OpenGL and glu, OpenCL, SDL, ZeroMQ, GLFW