Hi everyone, I'm trying to install additional packages to the lua interpreter within luatex. After an odyssey of google'ing with about a dozen different suggestions on how to achieve adding external libraries (or part thereof), most are way too complicated for my taste, mangling tex internals etc., and having had partial success at best with this topic I come here to ask: why isn't there something comparatively easy like a "luatex-luarocks" for installing third-party libraries? Would that be problematic to implement or has just no one had the time to do something like it yet?
Specifically, I tried to install a postgres driver, either luasql.postgres (a .so compiled for the system lua 5.2), or pgmoon. I can't manage to get either working. I won't flood the list with all possible error messages from the different ways I tried to achieve this. I'd just like to know: has anyone done this successfully? In my search I also came across the Lua section in the handbook, reading about the texconfig.kpse_init option, which would preserve the regular lua searcher/loader. Unfortunately, setting it to false in the lua init file as suggested results in a core dump with the 0.80.0 version installed via the OS package manager (I'm on FreeBSD 10.3). I can reproduce this core dump with the 0.95.0 version I downloaded and compiled myself. Setting it to true doesn't cause a core dump. Thank you very much, Konstantin
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