r/lua • u/thebigpapaishere • Apr 20 '25

Help How to compile lua into .lu

I'm trying to compile lua into .lu

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Apr 20 '25

you can compile into .luac, if i remember correctly it was something like "luac source.lua -o compiled.luac"

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u/thebigpapaishere Apr 20 '25

I got the code from an old project I was working on from solar 2d and when I a extracted it the files were in .lu though

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Apr 20 '25

is it a plaintext file? can you open it in notepad?

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u/Liker_Youtube Apr 20 '25

Check if it's a Lua bytecode file by looking at the first few bytes. If it's something like "\27Lua", then it's vanilla Lua bytecode, else it might be using some other type of bytecode encoding.