Lua 5.4.0/LuaRocks installation - lua

Hello,
I have been using Lua 5.1.2 since I begun learning Lua, and I wanted to upgrade to a more recent version, but there aren't any tutorial on how to do it, and I never did something similar. I downloaded the Lua 5.4.0 binaries, but I don't know how to install LuaRocks, which is really useful. (I don't know if this information is useful, but I'm using Windows 7)
Thank you.

so you got 5.4.0 installed?
https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/wiki/Download
you probably want the 64-bit version of LuaRocks
if it complains, try the 32-bit instead.
just guessing, because most processors are 64-bit these days - unless it's something like a Raspberry Pi, but then you wouldn't be on Win7...

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Are there any special reasons why Cygwin Clang is so outdated (see here), version 8, while already version 13 exists?
For example Ubuntu (apt), MSYS2, MSVC all have version 12.
Also does anyone know (any links?) if there is any very simple way (like docker-based) to build recent Clang for Cygwin? Maybe Clang has no support for Cygwin anymore, that's why Cygwin has outdated version?
See:
https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/clang.html
The reason is very simple, there is no current maintainer.
The previous one has no more available time to dedicate to the project.

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After a few post-installation glitches, and owing mostly to the help from Robert Cravella (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1695960/robert-crovella) and Mat Colgrove (https://stackoverflow.com/users/3204484/mat-colgrove) I managed to get things going which made me very happy.
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Compile my program:
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I run it through profiler:
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Is it an option, or possible at all, to update the PGI runtime thing?
And advice, please?
Cheers
Same answer as your previous post. There's a know issue with Nsight-Systems version 2020.3 which may sometimes cause an injection error when profiling OpenACC. I've been told that this was fixed in version 2020.4, hence the work around would be download and install 2020.4 or use a prior release.
https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-systems
Version 2020.3 is what we shipped with the NVHPC 20.7 SDK. I'm not sure we have enough time to update to 2020.4 in our upcoming 20.9 release, but if not, we'll bundle it in a later release.
Thanks Mat,
In the meanwhile I managed to have everything running. I did as follows:
First installed CUDA toolkit, which came with the latest driver for my Nvidia RTX 2070 card, 11.1 to be precise. It needed a reboot, but that's OK. For CUDA toolkit to work, I had to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to its libraries.
Then I installed Nvidia HPC-SDK, which I needed for Fortran 2003 compiler.
HPC-SDK is built for CUDA version 11.0 and comes with its own libraries and LD_LIBRARY_PATH should point to its libraries different from CUDA toolkit.
But, I kept the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to CUDA toolkit ones, and then compilers and profilers work in perfect harmony :-)
Thanks again, you and Robert helped me big time to get things running.

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The script calls back into a number of libraries via FFI and I'm trying to figure out some memory corruption issues. Valgrind is normally my tool of choice for this, however I've found that luaL_newstate fails when run under Valgrind.
After some poking around I found that standard luajit also fails to load. I think this might be more a problem with valgrind than luajit. Is there a way of giving valgrind more memory?
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Those versions appear to be "broken" on x86_64 with luajit.
See this email from Mike Pall:
[Note that Valgrind 3.9.0 has chosen to block MAP_32BIT, which
breaks LuaJIT on Linux/x64:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324181
Older versions of Valgrind still work. It wasn't that useful to
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I don't know the answer for Windows.
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If you want the real easy way and you'll have GCC 4.x installed in 2 clicks.
Download CodeBlocks + MinGW
http://prdownload.berlios.de/codeblocks/codeblocks-13.12mingw-setup.exe
http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26
[Updated link: Initially did one without mingw]
You can go with these options :
MinGW
Cygwin
Have you tried the two options for windows on Installing GCC Binaries webpage? It is located here.

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