Lua language support

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What packages need to be installed?
I've found the following package: liblua5.1-0-dev
(from http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/allpackages)

Does the code need to be compiled? If so, how / what's the command line 
argument?
No, it doesn't need to be compiled.

What command to run the bot?
lua mybot.lua


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Is it possible to install also a luajit runner? 

http://luajit.org (take LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta5 with a hotfix applied - I could do 
it)

It's Lua Just-In-Time interpreter that works MUCH-MUCH faster (up to x100) than 
usual Lua interpreter.
Your runner could analyze lua header to find #/usr/local/bin/luajit as sign to 
start luajit mybot.lua instead of lua mybot.lua

Unfortunately, there's no luajit package for ubuntu hardy, but it's quite easy 
to install:
make
make install
ln -sf luajit-2.0.0-beta5 /usr/local/bin/luajit

luajit would allow to make much more calculations in lua to find better 
strategy.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by buratin....@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2010 at 5:49