Elysian Shadows

I was wondering if there was a compiler for lua. I'm getting better at cpp but it's a pretty good jump from lua.
I think I would have to link it with c or cpp for the GUI unless someone else knows of something like sdl or openGL.
There was a lua studio thing but I think it's kinda useless since it's far in the beta and has alot of limitations.

Lua is an interpreted language, not compiled.

You can download the source from their site. You usually compile the interpreter and embed it within your project. Lua itself is interpreted straight from text files.

There is also "luac," a standalone Lua compiler that is packaged with the libs at http://lua.org.