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ci: update action to setup MSVC without warnings
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docs: recommend the MSVC action used on ci
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chore: set 5.5 as default version on actiom.yml
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ci: add explicit Lua version 5.5.0 to matrix
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docs: introduce Lua 5.5 version as default
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docs: bump gh-actions-lua and gh-actions-luarocks
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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions .github/workflows/test.yml
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Expand Up @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
luaVersion: ["5.1.5", "5.2.4", "5.3.6", "5.4.8", "luajit", "luajit-2.0", "luajit-2.1", "luajit-2.0.5", "luajit-2.1.0-beta3", "luajit-openresty", "5.1", "5.4", "5.5"]
luaVersion: ["5.1.5", "5.2.4", "5.3.6", "5.4.8", "5.5.0", "luajit", "luajit-2.0", "luajit-2.1", "luajit-2.0.5", "luajit-2.1.0-beta3", "luajit-openresty", "5.1", "5.4", "5.5"]
machineTag: ["ubuntu-latest", "macos-latest", "windows-latest"]
exclude:
- luaVersion: "luajit-2.0"
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steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@main

- uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
- uses: step-security/msvc-dev-cmd@v1

- name: Build Lua
uses: './'
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strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
luaVersion: ["5.1.5", "5.2.4", "5.3.6", "5.4.8", "luajit", "luajit-2.0", "luajit-2.1", "luajit-2.0.5", "luajit-2.1.0-beta3", "luajit-openresty", "5.1", "5.4"]
luaVersion: ["5.1.5", "5.2.4", "5.3.6", "5.4.8", "5.5.0", "luajit", "luajit-2.0", "luajit-2.1", "luajit-2.0.5", "luajit-2.1.0-beta3", "luajit-openresty", "5.1", "5.4"]

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luaVersion: ["5.1.5", "5.2.4", "5.3.6", "5.4.8", "5.5.0", "luajit", "luajit-2.0", "luajit-2.1", "luajit-2.0.5", "luajit-2.1.0-beta3", "luajit-openresty", "5.1", "5.4"]
luaVersion: ["5.1.5", "5.2.4", "5.3.6", "5.4.8", "5.5.0", "luajit", "luajit-2.0", "luajit-2.1", "luajit-2.0.5", "luajit-2.1.0-beta3", "luajit-openresty", "5.1", "5.4", "5.5"]

machineTag: ["ubuntu-latest", "macos-latest", "windows-latest"]
exclude:
- luaVersion: "luajit-2.0"
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steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@main

- uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
- uses: step-security/msvc-dev-cmd@v1

- name: Get Lua from cache
uses: './'
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Expand Up @@ -19,42 +19,42 @@ Other Lua GitHub actions:

## Usage

Install Lua: (Will typically default to the latest release, 5.4.8 as of this readme)
Install Lua: (Will typically default to the latest release, 5.5.0 as of this readme)

```yaml
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v11
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v12
```

Install specific version of Lua:

```yaml
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v11
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v12
with:
luaVersion: "5.1.5"
```

Install specific version of LuaJIT:

```yaml
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v11
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v12
with:
luaVersion: "luajit-2.1.0-beta3"
```

When using Windows the following prerequisite action must be run before
building Lua: [`ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1`](https://github.com/ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd). It is safe to
building Lua: [`step-security/msvc-dev-cmd@v1`](https://github.com/step-security/msvc-dev-cmd). It is safe to
include this line on non-Windows platforms, as the action will do nothing in those cases.

```yaml
- uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
- uses: step-security/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v11
```

## Inputs

### `luaVersion`

**Default**: `"5.4"`
**Default**: `"5.5"`

Specifies the version of Lua to install. The version name instructs the action
where to download the source from.
Expand All @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ Examples of versions:
* `"5.2.4"`
* `"5.3.5"`
* `"5.4.1"`
* `"5.5.0"`
* `"luajit-2.0"`
* `"luajit-2.1"`
* `"luajit-master"`
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**Version aliases**

You can use shorthand `5.1`, `5.2`, `5.3`, `5.4`, `luajit` version aliases to point to the
You can use shorthand `5.1`, `5.2`, `5.3`, `5.4`, `5.5`, `luajit` version aliases to point to the
latest (or recent) version of Lua for that version.

### `luaCompileFlags`
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Example value:

```yaml
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v11
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v12
with:
luaVersion: 5.3
luaCompileFlags: LUA_CFLAGS="-DLUA_INT_TYPE=LUA_INT_INT"
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## Full Example

This example is for running tests on a Lua module that uses LuaRocks for
dependencies and [busted](https://olivinelabs.com/busted/) for a test suite.
dependencies and [busted](https://github.com/lunarmodules/busted) for a test suite.

Create `.github/workflows/test.yml` in your repository:

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runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/checkout@v7

- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v11
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v12
with:
luaVersion: "5.1.5"

- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-luarocks@v6
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-luarocks@v7

- name: build
run: |
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luaVersion: ["5.1.5", "5.2.4", "luajit-2.1.0-beta3"]

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v11
- uses: actions/checkout@v7
- uses: luarocks/gh-actions-lua@v12
with:
luaVersion: ${{ matrix.luaVersion }}

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luaVersion:
description: "The version of Lua to install, must be available on https://www.lua.org/ftp/ or http://luajit.org/download.html"
required: false
default: "5.4"
default: "5.5"
luaCompileFlags:
description: "Command line flags passed to make when building Lua"
required: false
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