[luatex] Accessing external Lua libraries

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:45 PM Andreas Matthias <
andreas.matthias at gmail.com> wrote:

> To access external Lua libraries I have the following settings in
> texmf.cnf:
>
>    LUAROCKS_PATH = ~/.luarocks/share/lua/5.3
>    LUAROCKS_CPATH= ~/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.3
>
>    LUAINPUTS = <default_path_here>//;$LUAROCKS_PATH//
>    CLUAINPUTS = <default_path_here>//;$LUAROCKS_CPATH//
>
> Now I have access to files like:
>
>    ~/.luarocks/share/lua/5.3/?.lua
>    ~/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.3/?.so
>
> But unfortunately I do not get access to `init.lua` files, i.e.:
>
>    ~/.luarocks/share/lua/5.3/?/init.lua
>
> What should I do to access these files?
>
> In addition I have a sneaking suspicion that
>
>    \directlua{
>        print(package.path)
>    }
>
> displays the content of the environment variable $LUA_PATH, but not the
> path that is actually accessible to luatex when using kpse settings.
>


You can run luatex --kpathsea-debug=-1
to check what kpse is doing.
-- 
luigi
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