Jan Kneschke maintains lighttpd and posted a simple FCGI for lua. This magnet.c should be easily compiled with
gcc -Wall -O2 -g -o magnet magnet.c -llua5.1 -lfcgi -ldl -lm
This may not work if your lua-include is not in the path for compiling.
And you'll run into such error messages:
magnet.c:3:20: error: lualib.h: No such file or directory
magnet.c:4:21: error: lauxlib.h: No such file or directory
magnet.c:11: Error: expected »)« before »*« token
magnet.c:19: Error: expected »)« before »*« token
magnet.c:59: Error: expected »)« before »*« token
Since you may not be used to compiling, I think it might be good to post a reason for that and a solution.
The reason is, that lualib.h is not in include path. To add it specific folder for the compiling to the include path you may use the
-I /path/name/ parameter.
gcc -Wall -O2 -g -o magnet magnet.c [strong]-I/usr/include/lua5.1/[/strong] -llua5.1 -lfcgi -ldl -lm
There are some distributions, where the
-llua5.1 may not work and result in
cannot find -llua5.1. In this cases try
-llua instead.
Have fun compiling!
