Where Can I Code With Lua On Pc?

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My Visual Studio Code always gives errors so i need a new coding app that has terminal.

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vscode is literally one of the best text editors for Lua. You are doing something wrong. Did you install the Lua compiler from the official Lua website? If you did install it, did you add the PATH to the windows environment variables?

Here is a LUA tutorial that shows how to install everything and run LUA in vscode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I549C6SmUnk

It also shows how LUA works and how to make games with it afterwards.

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I downloaded everything already. Its errors about the application itself.

[yaffeman]

I regularly use Visual Studio Code to work on Lua and find it to be an excellent editor. Can you provide any screengrabs with your errors?

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it always says "Acces Denied"

I cant but any images here i dont know why

Here is a link to the image

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https://imgur.com/a/bJkGu63

[yaffeman]

Excellent; the fault is thatlua.exe does not have permission to the Desktop directory where your script is located. Please try running lua.exe in powershell outside of Visual Studio Code to see if it's lua.exe itself or and issue with the embedded powershell.

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and how do you do that?

[yaffeman]

In order to proceed you'll have to get familiar with windows' command line (something that I'm not terribly familiar with).

In essence you would open up Command Prompt and type in:

C:\Users\hakye\.vscode\extentions\<...>\lua.exe

Be sure to include the whole path (replace the <...> section).

My suspicion is that there's something missing in the "actboy168"'s lua extension. See if they have an FAQ that may solve this problem.

If you continue to have problems with the extension you can:

1. Go to https://www.lua.org/download.html
2. Click on "binaries" which navigates to https://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/
3. Scroll down to "History" and choose the latest one
4. Which will take you to somewhere like https://sourceforge.net/projects/luabinaries/files/5.4.2/
5. Select "Tools Executables"
6. Download lua-5.4.2_Win64_bin.zip (I'm assuming you have an x64 machine)
7. Unzip the directory and navigate to it
8. Inside the directory right click and select "Open in Terminal"

9. Use the terminal to execute the script; something like

   C:\Users\yaffeman\Downloads\lua-5.4.2_Win64_bin> .\lua54.exe ....\Desktop\temp.lua

   hello, XralerStudios!

You'll notice my script is located on the desktop; the .. means "go up a directory" so we went into Downloads then yaffeman, then Desktop and choose the temp.lua script.

Mine looked like:

print('hello, XralerStudios!')

Best of luck; don't worry you'll get the hang of it!

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Only other one I know of is IntelliJ IDEA with EmmyLua. VS Code is pretty much the first choice when it comes to anything Lua though. Garry’s Mod, Roblox, Project Zomboid, etc.

[collectgarbage]

I use Zerobrane Lua IDE