How to install and run Lua in Windows

And hello everyone .

Welcome back to a new video .

So in this video , we'll learn how to actually install and run Lua on Windows .

Because for the longest time possible , I was thinking it's actually a very difficult process .

How , how does one make this full screen ?

But it turns out it's actually pretty simple .

So you just go to the website dot org .

Then here you have a little download option .

Click on that .

Then you want to just ignore all of this because compiling on Windows grows .

Who wants to do that ?

And this is a Linux only thing I I correct .

So we can actually just go to here if you don't have the time or inclination to compile yourself .

Like any normal Windows user , get a binary or try the live demo .

We want to get the binary binary is just basically the executable .

Now don't be fooled by all of this .

You don't download it from here .

You go to this download page right here .

They make it a massive pain to actually get what you want .

It's very interesting .

Then here you have a bunch of options to choose from .

I would like to go with 5.3 0.6 because 5.4 0.2 has a lot of changes and stuff that just sucks .

So here we have a bunch of things we can choose from .

This is Linux , this is Windows 32 bit windows 64 bit .

If you're on Windows , you probably have 64 bit and take note .

This will also work on Windows 11 just because I'm using Windows 10 , doesn't mean it won't work on Windows 11 .

And then we have Mac , which guys seem to not be able to download .

And then we have more Linux or that's a source that is Linux .

Now we want the 64 bit zip file .

If we click that , it will start downloading our files , you just say save file and I believe it's done .

We can now open up our file manager and we can go to downloads and you see , we have a , a 5.3 0.6 .

You can right click and extract the file .

If you don't have this option , I recommend you go install one or some sort of file , extracting software .

I like using one because it just works .

I'm going to extract to Lua 5.3 0.6 .

But if you just said extract here , it would have been perfectly fine .

Now , in here , we have a bunch of options or a bunch of options .

This is just the executables .

This is the most important file here .

This allows us to actually run a , a code which we will do in a second .

Now , what we need to do is we can go back here and we can rename this .

You can me to anything you want , but I'll just call it because that's simple .

You know , that's now I'm going to copy this so you can right click and we can say copy and I'm going to go to my local sea drive .

Now you can just paste it in here if you want .

But I do prefer going to program files right there and then just saying paste because it's a program .

So we want to paste it here .

There we go .

And next thing we can do is we can open up the command prompt .

So you can click here , search command prompt and it actually what I want to go to this page anyways , once you search command prompt , you should see this .

Now first try type Lua don't get anything that's perfectly fine .

Try to type Lua five free .

Doesn't work OK ?

If you do get this , then that means it has not yet been added to path .

One way to fix .

This is by rebooting .

Another way to fix this is by going to settings , which can I can I search here , I can OK ?

Going to settings and it's searching here in environment variables .

So here edit the system , environment variables .

And in here you can just say environment variables down here that you don't have to worry about this too much .

You can go down here to path , you can say edit and these are the locations where all the environment variables is as you can see my program files , X 86 is here but not my normal program files or at least some of these eight A sixes are here .

So I'm going to do this , I'm going to say new and I'm going to browse because the thing is we , it , it's a very difficult way to get there .

I'm going to just browse to where it is and here program files , we saved it in there and there's lua .

Now , if we say ok , as you can see , it added it here for us , it added it to the program files or the environment variables .

Now , if we were to say , OK , I just need to put the folder there because it's going to scan the folder .

You don't have to worry about the executables , you say , ok , you say ok , and you close that then .

Now also if you do want to , you could always rename this to and just remove the five free .

I don't know if that will still work , but I'm pretty sure it will .

You don't have to exit out of the command prompt and just open it up again .

Ok , please open here and to look like a hacker , you can say color .

02 .

Cool .

Now , if we look like a hacker .

We can clear the terminal or CLS and we can say a 53 , this will allow you to go Lua .

If you see this , you did it correctly .

Also , if you didn't download Lu a 5.3 you will have a different number here depending on the version , you downloaded it and that just executes the program .

Now , we can say print , test to make sure this works .

If it works , then you're good to go next up .

You probably want to actually try and run a file in Lua or a Lua file itself .

I'm going to create a new folder .

I'm gonna call it for my Lua programs here .

I'm going to say new text document and make sure you can see this dot TXT there .

We want to change that .

We're going to say main dot and remove that dot text if it was there and just say yes and you should see this .

You can then edit it with note pad if they give you the option to do it .

So just open it with and let's see your more apps , note pad .

There we go .

And uh yeah , we didn't need to always open up with that .

Then here we can of course just say print , I am cool .

Save this file by clicking the file and save or just control this and even close notepad .

And now here you can just shift right click and you can say open powershell window here .

There's multiple ways to do this , but this is usually the easiest then you'll see this .

You can then just say 53 and in the file right there .

Main dot Lua , you're gonna say main dot Lua .

There you go .

I am cool .

If however , this did not work , then you can just open up your command prompt again .

Bring it over here .

Who and now we need to navigate through this folder one way you can do it .

You can just right click here and copy address .

Now you can just say CD for change directory and right click .

If you right click , then it will paste it here , press enter and now you're inside of this folder .

Now you can say Lua 53 and main dot Lu A .

There you go .

I am cool .

And yet that's how to install and run Lua .

Thank you all for watching .

I hope you all enjoy it and I'll see you all again in the next or next tutorial , I guess .