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Posted: **23 Apr 2016 21:47**

I am trying to compile 2.2.2 on Debian Jessie 64 bit to improve Bluray playback. The configure script runs ok but I run into errors immediately into the build process.

With make the error is:

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jason@MEDIA:~/vlc-2.2.2$ make -j4
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2'
Making all in compat
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/compat'
  GEN      dummy.c
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/compat'
  CC       dummy.lo
  CC       strlcpy.lo
  CCLD     libcompat.la
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/compat'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/compat'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/doc'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/po'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/po'
Making all in share
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/share'
  GEN      vlc.desktop
  LUAC   lua/extensions/VLSub.luac
  LUAC   lua/intf/cli.luac
/usr/bin/luac: lua/intf/cli.lua:2: function arguments expected near `module'
Makefile:1694: recipe for target 'lua/intf/cli.luac' failed
make[2]: *** [lua/intf/cli.luac] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/usr/bin/luac: lua/extensions/VLSub.lua:1097: unexpected symbol near `#'
Makefile:1694: recipe for target 'lua/extensions/VLSub.luac' failed
  LUAC   lua/intf/dummy.luac
make[2]: *** [lua/extensions/VLSub.luac] Error 1
  LUAC   lua/intf/dumpmeta.luac
/usr/bin/luac: lua/intf/dumpmeta.lua:2: function arguments expected near `a'
Makefile:1694: recipe for target 'lua/intf/dumpmeta.luac' failed
make[2]: *** [lua/intf/dumpmeta.luac] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2/share'
Makefile:2253: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jason/vlc-2.2.2'
Makefile:2137: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

and with compile the error is:

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MAKE     : compat
MAKE     : doc
MAKE     : po
MAKE     : share
for f in vlc.desktop.in skins2/default/theme.xml skins2/default/subX/about.png skins2/default/subX/eq.png skins2/default/subX/font.otf skins2/default/subX/main.png skins2/default/subX/playtreeglyphs.png skins2/default/subX/pl.png skins2/default/subX/sysbuttons.png skins2/default/subX/vol_anim.png skins2/default/subX/vol_slider.png skins2/fonts/FreeSans.ttf skins2/fonts/FreeSansBold.ttf skins2/skin.dtd skins2/skin.catalog skins2/winamp2.xml vlc512x512.png lua/http/view.html lua/http/mobile.html lua/http/dialogs/create_stream.html lua/http/dialogs/equalizer_window.html lua/http/dialogs/mosaic_window.html lua/http/dialogs/batch_window.html lua/http/dialogs/error_window.html lua/http/dialogs/browse_window.html lua/http/dialogs/stream_window.html lua/http/dialogs/offset_window.html lua/http/dialogs/stream_config_window.html lua/http/custom.lua lua/http/vlm.html lua/http/images/buttons.png lua/http/images/speaker-32.png lua/http/images/vlc-48.png lua/http/images/Audio-48.png lua/http/images/Folder-48.png lua/http/images/Other-48.png lua/http/images/Back-48.png lua/http/images/Video-48.png lua/http/images/vlc16x16.png lua/http/mobile_equalizer.html lua/http/vlm_export.html lua/http/mobile_browse.html lua/http/favicon.ico lua/http/mobile_view.html lua/http/requests/playlist.xml lua/http/requests/playlist.json lua/http/requests/README.txt lua/http/requests/playlist_jstree.xml lua/http/requests/browse.xml lua/http/requests/browse.json lua/http/requests/vlm_cmd.xml lua/http/requests/status.xml lua/http/requests/status.json lua/http/requests/vlm.xml lua/http/index.html lua/http/css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.13.custom.css lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_diagonals-thick_20_666666_40x40.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_flat_10_000000_40x100.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-icons_ffffff_256x240.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_gloss-wave_35_f6a828_500x100.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_glass_65_ffffff_1x400.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-icons_222222_256x240.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_glass_100_f6f6f6_1x400.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_highlight-soft_100_eeeeee_1x100.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_highlight-soft_75_ffe45c_1x100.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_diagonals-thick_18_b81900_40x40.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-icons_ffd27a_256x240.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-icons_228ef1_256x240.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-icons_ef8c08_256x240.png lua/http/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-bg_glass_100_fdf5ce_1x400.png lua/http/css/main.css lua/http/css/mobile.css lua/http/js/ui.js lua/http/js/common.js lua/http/js/jquery.jstree.js lua/http/js/controllers.js solid/vlc-openbd.desktop solid/vlc-opencda.desktop solid/vlc-opendvd.desktop solid/vlc-openvcd.desktop lua/README.txt lua/extensions/README.txt lua/extensions/VLSub.lua lua/intf/README.txt lua/intf/cli.lua lua/intf/dummy.lua lua/intf/dumpmeta.lua lua/intf/http.lua lua/intf/luac.lua lua/intf/modules/host.lua lua/intf/modules/httprequests.lua lua/intf/telnet.lua lua/meta/art/README.txt lua/meta/art/02_frenchtv.lua lua/meta/art/03_lastfm.lua lua/meta/art/01_googleimage.lua lua/meta/art/00_musicbrainz.lua lua/meta/fetcher/README.txt lua/meta/fetcher/tvrage.lua lua/meta/reader/README.txt lua/meta/reader/filename.lua lua/modules/common.lua lua/modules/dkjson.lua lua/modules/sandbox.lua lua/modules/simplexml.lua lua/playlist/README.txt lua/playlist/anevia_streams.lua lua/playlist/anevia_xml.lua lua/playlist/appletrailers.lua lua/playlist/bbc_co_uk.lua lua/playlist/break.lua lua/playlist/canalplus.lua lua/playlist/cue.lua lua/playlist/dailymotion.lua lua/playlist/extreme.lua lua/playlist/france2.lua lua/playlist/googlevideo.lua lua/playlist/jamendo.lua lua/playlist/joox.lua lua/playlist/katsomo.lua lua/playlist/koreus.lua lua/playlist/lelombrik.lua lua/playlist/liveleak.lua lua/playlist/metacafe.lua lua/playlist/metachannels.lua lua/playlist/mpora.lua lua/playlist/pinkbike.lua lua/playlist/pluzz.lua lua/playlist/rockbox_fm_presets.lua lua/playlist/soundcloud.lua lua/playlist/vimeo.lua lua/playlist/youtube.lua lua/playlist/youtube_homepage.lua lua/playlist/zapiks.lua lua/sd/README.txt lua/sd/fmc.lua lua/sd/icecast.lua lua/sd/icast.lua lua/sd/jamendo.lua lua/sd/metachannels.lua; do \
        test "." = . || f="./$f"; \
        if test $f = lua/extensions/VLSub.lua; then \
                exit 0; \
        fi; \
done; \
exit 1
/usr/bin/luac -o lua/extensions/VLSub.luac lua/extensions/VLSub.lua
/usr/bin/luac: lua/extensions/VLSub.lua:1097: unexpected symbol near `#'
Makefile:1694: recipe for target 'lua/extensions/VLSub.luac' failed
Makefile:2253: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
Makefile:2137: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

I have tried installing 3 different versions of libua-dev, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3. What could be the problem?

Posted: **08 Aug 2017 21:58**

I get that this is a really old post, but I hit the same error.

I was able to resolve it by building and installing lua 5.3.4 from source.

The '#' and '%' were introduced in Lua 5.1:
"Lua 5.1 was released on 21 Feb 2006. Its main new features were a new module system, incremental garbage collection, new mechanism for varargs, new syntax for long strings and comments, mod and length operators, metatables for all types, new configuration scheme via luaconf.h, and a fully reentrant parser."

In my case, even though I had installed other versions of Lua through the package manager, it was still looking at lua5 by default.

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