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I'm confused what you mean. What is a packager doing here? I always assumed that the intention of this library is that you, as a developer, compile and embed it

I'm confused what you mean. What is a packager doing here? I always assumed that the intention of this library is that you, as a developer, compile and embed it in a product that needs a scripting engine. What use would a standalone LuaJIT package be?

fullstop 3y ago
It's available as a package, and a library, in most Linux distributions. It includes the library and the interpreter. edit: I have a few scripts with #!/usr/bin/luajit as the shebang line.
- andersa 3y ago
  Interesting, that's neat. Somehow didn't realize using it like this was an option, but now that you mention it...
  - kzrdude 3y ago
    libluajit is a drop-in replacement for the regular liblua (v5.1)
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Bu9818 3y ago
Even ignoring the installed interpreter, libraries on Linux distributions are usually installed system-wide as their own packages which other packages depend on (neovim, mpv, cgit, etc.)
kragen 3y ago
if you apt install libluajit-5.1-dev you can compile and link your c programs with it without having to compile it yourself similarly if you are writing programs in lua rather than in c you can run them in luajit if you just apt install luajit if you want to release your programs as free software so other people can compile and link them, it's important for them to be able to get the version of luajit you were using so they can debug why your program doesn't work in the current version of luajit