15:I[981,["658","static/chunks/658-a698693f56d0116a.js","183","static/chunks/183-6beeeb801c274aaa.js","474","static/chunks/app/%5Btype%5D/layout-631c4730b83c8223.js"],"Posts"] 16:T6db,There are two common ways to package .lua scripts into binary executables today: the traditional srlua, and the newer luastatic, which can produce a true native binary (instead of simply concatenating the Lua interpreter).

However, both approaches have notable limitations.

srlua:

- Can only package a single .lua file

- Requires manual compilation

luastatic:

- Linux-only

In addition, neither of them provides automatic dependency analysis.

Therefore, I (or, Claude Opus 4.5, haha) wrote luainstaller, similar in spirit to PyInstaller by name and design, wraps both tools and adds automatic dependency analysis and single-file packaging. It also ships with precompiled srlua binaries, working out of the box on both Windows and Linux.

Getting started is straightforward:

pip install luainstaller

For example, suppose you have a.lua, which depends on b.lua, and b.lua depends on c.lua. There is no need to manually analyze dependencies or merge scripts into a single .lua file for srlua. You simply run:

luainstaller build a.lua

and it produces a standalone binary with no external dependencies.

You do not even need to use the command line. Running:

luainstaller-gui

launches a simple GUI built with Tkinter that covers the basic functionality.

luainstaller can also be used as a Python library. It supports additional parameters, a logging system based on SimpSave, selectable engines (precompiled Lua 5.1.5 for Windows and Linux, both 32-bit and 64-bit, as well as Lua 5.4.8), and more. Detailed usage is documented on GitHub.

Tested on Windows 11 and Fedora 43.

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