Cmake not finding lua

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I am trying to build a package using make, however it calls cmake which then calls FindLua

I end up with this error

-- lua -> /home/kirkm/.nix-profile/bin/lua
-- git -> /home/kirkm/.nix-profile/bin/git
-- asciidoctor -> /home/kirkm/.nix-profile/bin/asciidoctor
-- gzip -> /run/current-system/sw/bin/gzip
-- ldoc -> /home/kirkm/.nix-profile/bin/ldoc
-- convert -> /home/kirkm/.nix-profile/bin/convert
-- Could NOT find Lua (missing: LUA_LIBRARIES LUA_INCLUDE_DIR)
CMake Error at awesomeConfig.cmake:69 (message):
  Could not find Lua.  See the error above.

  You might want to hint it using the LUA_DIR environment variable, or set
  the LUA_INCLUDE_DIR / LUA_LIBRARY CMake variables.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:33 (include)

Which confuses me as it finds lua initially but then fails on the FindLua command where it cannot initialise the other directories

I tried looking at this post and ran

cmake -DLUA_INCLUDE_DIR=/home/kirkm/.nix-profile/bin -DLUA_LIBRARY=/nix/store/x7hwkanrnpldwawl1whvlyhg6762kzid-lua-5.2.4/lib/liblua.so.5.2 ..

but no luck, I also exported the LUA_DIR variable.

Any help would be appreciated :slight_smile:

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Please share your nix shell code.

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My issue was not using a nix shell…

After doing some more digging I made a shell with the lua package and it was found afterwards, didn’t think this was the issue as it was finding lua initially, sorry about that!

Resolved by making a shell and adding lua to the packages :slight_smile:

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