Lua generate nix packages from luarocks (#54978)

* lua: generate packages from luarocks

* luarocks-nix: update

* removed packages already available in nixpkgs

* adressing reviews

update script can now accept another csv file as input with -c

* Remove obsolete comment

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
index 50dd4d1fcd9a..11e05b504b43 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
@@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ let
     else if stdenv.isSunOS then "solaris"
     else throw "unsupported platform";
 
+  buildLuaApplication = args: buildLuarocksPackage ({namePrefix="";} // args );
+
+  buildLuarocksPackage = with pkgs.lib; makeOverridable( callPackage ../development/interpreters/lua-5/build-lua-package.nix {
+    inherit toLuaModule;
+    inherit lua writeText;
+  });
 in
 with self; {
 
@@ -79,9 +85,15 @@ with self; {
 
 
   inherit toLuaModule lua-setup-hook;
+  inherit buildLuarocksPackage buildLuaApplication;
   inherit requiredLuaModules luaOlder luaAtLeast
     isLua51 isLua52 isLuaJIT lua callPackage;
 
+  # wraps programs in $out/bin with valid LUA_PATH/LUA_CPATH
+  wrapLua = callPackage ../development/interpreters/lua-5/wrap-lua.nix {
+    inherit lua; inherit (pkgs) makeSetupHook makeWrapper;
+  };
+
   luarocks = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/luarocks {
     inherit lua;
   };