Fast, small, simple, intended to be modified.
Runs Luau code on your computer through the command line.
Has a plugin system to give it more capabilities than Luau would normally have. (filesystem, shell commands, graphics, or anything else you want if you make your own plugin)
Has a build command which turns a Luau script into a standalone executable file with embedded plugins.
You can pass arguments into Luau scripts with --args and access them from the script by using ... in the global scope.
- Clone Luau using Visual Studio.
- Set the Windows environment variable
%LUAUSRC%to the path to the cloned Luau repo. - Clone runluau (this repo) using Visual Studio.
- Clone runluau-plugins with Visual Studio, and make sure it's in the same folder that runluau was cloned into.
- No x86 support by default. Pick x64 Release or x64 Debug configurations for Luau, runluau, and runluau-plugins inside Visual Studio.
- For your first build, build Luau first, then runluau, then runluau-plugins. After, you can do any in any order.
- Use in the
outfolder.
Would be a very difficult feat, as the plugins system is based off loading DLLs, and the build system generates Windows executables.
You can read the arguments passed into a Luau script simply by using ... in the global scope. It will be a tuple of strings.
The debugger settings are usually set to whatever random thing I was testing at the time. Change the command, command arguments, and working directory in the runluau project configuration -> Debugging to debug for yourself.
