Lua_open returns null using luaJIT

Question

Using the last luaJIT lua_open returns null . This does not happen with the regular lua library.

 lua_State *L = lua_open(); std::cout << L << std::endl; 

Output: 0x0

How can I get luaJIT to work?

SSCCE:

 #include <iostream> #include <luajit-2.0/lua.hpp> //linked library: libluajit-5.1.a int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) { lua_State *L = luaL_newstate(); // lua_open(); std::cout << L << std::endl; // 0x0 } 

Additional information: built on OSX 10.9 from the source (tried both 2.0.2 and git) with make and make install . Using the compiler:

 $ cc --version Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0 Thread model: posix 

(Using the luajit command-line application luajit works fine, the script test runs without errors.)

Answer 1

Apparently, x64 Mac applications require special handling; see http://luajit.org/install.html .

If you are creating a 64-bit OSX application that directly or indirectly binds against LuaJIT, you need to link your main executable with these flags:

 -pagezero_size 10000 -image_base 100000000