VLC 2.2.2 compilation error: LUA related

[Jason_25]

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?

[aardvarkspark]

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.