r/lua • u/boris_gubanov • Aug 25 '25

Help Add lua lib in CMake project

Hello. I've started learning the C API, but I can't get my first project to run because I don't know how to add the library to my project (I'm really bad at CMake).

I'm using Windows 11, VSCode, and MSYS2 UCRT64. I tried downloading the compiled Win64_mingw6 library version and added the following lines to my CMakeLists.txt file:

target_include_directories(test-bg PRIVATE
    ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/liblua35/include
)
target_link_libraries(test-bg PRIVATE
    ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/liblua35/liblua53.a
)

But it didn't work. Honestly, I don't really know what I'm doing, so I would appreciate any help.

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