Release v0.6.1

lpm install and lpm uninstall

lpm now supports installing tools globally with lpm install, the equivalent of cargo install, uv tool add, npm i -g, or luarocks install.

It installs a package as a globally-available tool, so you can invoke it by name without needing to lpm x it with a full path every time.

lpm install --git https://github.com/user/my-tool
my-tool --help

lpm uninstall removes a previously installed tool.

Native C module support

The lpm engine now supports native C modules (.so on Linux, .dll on Windows) by building lpm with LuaJIT’s C module exports exposed.

Note: Linux only for now, Windows is a little trickier since you can’t export symbols from a binary directly.

Native C modules in compiled binaries

Any .so or .dll files present in target are now preserved when running lpm compile, so native C libraries are bundled correctly into your self-contained executable (SEA) apps.

This works via storing their raw code into the binary, and then extracting them at startup to a temporary deterministic directory. Then, in the same way lua files are resolved with package.preload, the C modules are resolved too.