aerospike-mod-lua

Aeospike Mod Lua provides support for executing Lua language functions using the Aerospike data types. This module is used by both the Aerospike Server and the Aerospike C Client as a git submodule.

Dependencies

Linux Dependencies

Building Aerospike Mod Lua requires the development resources for the Lua language version 5.1.4. The installation instructions for common Linux distributions are as follows:

Red Hat Dependencies

Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) based Linux Distributions (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE, etc.) require the following packages:

lua-devel - Development resources for the Lua language.

If yum is your package manager, then you should be able to run the following command:

$ sudo yum install lua-devel

Debian Dependencies

Debian based Linux Distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) require the following packages:

liblua5.1-dev - Development resources for the Lua language.

If apt-get is your package manager, then you should be able to run the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-dev

Build

Build Linux and MacOS

To build the test app:

$ make test

To build a static archive libmod_lua.a:

$ make libmod_lua.a

To build a dynamic library libmod_lua.so:

$ make libmod_lua.so

Build MacOS XCode

Double click xcode/aerospike-mod-lua.xcworkspace
Click Product -> Build

Build Windows Visual Studio 2017 (or greater)

Double click vs/aerospike-mod-lua.sln
Click Build -> Build Solution

Install

All generated files are placed in ./target/{arch}, where:

{arch} is the target architecture, e.g., Linux-x86_64.
The lib subdirectory contains all libraries.
The bin subdirectory contains all executables.

libmod_lua.so

You will want to either:

Move the libmod_lua.so to a location your program can access.
Add the path to libmod_lua.so to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Test

To test, you can run the following:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:target/Linux-x86_64/lib
$ target/Linux-x86_64/bin/test record test1.record a b c d

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