Can't configure pinnacle usin lua

[salahoued]

Hi, I just installed pinnacle on cachyOS, and playing with it. But the first thing I encountered is that I couldn't configure pinnalce using lua, after running pinnacle config gen and pinnacle client I got this:

Lua 5.4.7  Copyright (C) 1994-2024 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
lua: module 'pinnacle' not found:
        no field package.preload['pinnacle']
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.4/pinnacle.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.4/pinnacle/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.4/pinnacle.lua'
        no file '/usr/share/lua/5.4/pinnacle/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/pinnacle.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/pinnacle/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.4/pinnacle.lua'
        no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.4/pinnacle/init.lua'
        no file './pinnacle.lua'
        no file './pinnacle/init.lua'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/pinnacle.so'
        no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.4/pinnacle.so'
        no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.4/loadall.so'
        no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.4/loadall.so'
        no file './pinnacle.so'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        [C]: in ?

Right now I'm using the rust API, but I think I will need the lua API so I can get information about windows, tags...
Also I can't seem to get pinnacle spawn applications using Command::new if the app has arguments like rofi -show drun until I use Command:with_shell.

Thanks

[Ottatop]

If you installed with just install, then you also need to run with just run to export $LUA_PATH and $LUA_CPATH to get Lua to use the locally installed library. Alternatively, run eval $(luarocks path) to export the necessary variables.

Also I can't seem to get pinnacle spawn applications using Command::new if the app has arguments like rofi -show drun until I use Command:with_shell.

I presume you're running Command::new("rofi -show drun"). You need to instead run Command::new("rofi").args(["-show", "drun"]), similarly to how std::process::Command works. It works when you use with_shell because the shell correctly interprets the entire string.

[salahoued]

Hello, Thanks for the quick response,
First I used paru to install pinnacle not just. So maybe I need to run eval $(luarocks path)? do I need to add it to the config or to my .bashrc?

For the second part, yes I did run it that way, and also with Command::new(["rofi", "-show", "drun"]), I saw in the wiki the mention of String or String[] and I thought that's how it should be (not a rust user/programmer). It works now.

Thanks again

[Ottatop]

Ah, you're using the AUR git package.

That package currently doesn't have the Lua API (also it's a bit broken). The package maintainer hasn't responded to my requests to add the API in.

If you're willing to use an external PKGBUILD, I've been using this^{remove the .txt, github won't let me upload it without the extension}. I was gonna upload it but the current package maintainer uploaded their version first. I may have some time later this week to upload a non-git package, seeing as we're in the process of releasing v0.1.

Otherwise, you'll need to clone from source and install the Lua API locally with just install and add eval $(luarocks path) to your .bashrc. Though I do recommend that above PKGBUILD so you're not mixing a system install with local dependencies.

I saw in the wiki the mention of String or String[] and I thought that's how it should be

Hm that's only correct for the Lua side, something to fix I suppose. Also I'm now seeing that the Processes wiki page is a little broken, interesting.

[salahoued]

Hi, I tried installing pinnacle from source, it built/compiled correctly using just build, but when running just install I got some errors:

Error: Failed installing dependency: https://luarocks.org/http-0.4-0.all.rock - Failed installing dependency: https://luarocks.org/luaossl-20220711-0.src.rock - Build error: Failed compiling object src/openssl.o
error: Recipe `install-lua-lib` failed with exit code 1

Full log:
pinnacle-just-install.txt

[Ottatop]

Looks like the recent GCC 15 release broke luaossl compilation, I'm getting the same error. If you can downgrade to GCC 14 it should compile.