Error wont go away (lazy.nvim luarocks)

[d7omdev]

I keep getting this error whenever I open neovim although the plugin is working

[onurcanbektas]

Same here

[3rd]

hey @kevinm6 do you know how we could avoid this? i think we don't have to force users to have a global lua 5.1 install (that fixes it) since it will be loaded by luajit anyway right?

[3rd]

Pinned this and disabled rockspec until we find a workaround @abdulrahmanDev1 @kevinm6
There is a discussion about this on Reddit, I'm not that familiar with rocks, hopefully we can find the right way to do things soon: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1dng1d6/comment/lc2t5uh/

[kevinm6]

Hi @3rd .. unfortunately for now it's required from Lazy the Lua@5.1 !
A workaround is the one reported in the Lazy UI warnings (or checkhealth), in Lazy config set this

rocks = {
  hererocks = true
}

Another pointer where it was discussed

[3rd]

What I think I'm missing is why is having a specific Lua version installed externally required when the end goal is pulling luarocks that will be executed with the LuaJIT bundled by Neovim anyway - I don't think I understand how it works. Is it for a build step on some of the rocks? Or is the external Lua installation used at runtime?

[kevinm6]

I think is due to some internals of Lazy that are really integrated with Neovim, since that's the one that needs Lua@5.1 and the way it loads the modules at runtime.

I don't think depends on something relative to LuaJIT or the rock build itself, since I'm capable of build it without Lua5.1 and in multiple ways outside NeoVim

[sebalfaro]

Hey guys @kevinm6 i'm stucked in the same point, so should i install globally lua 5.1 and also the the hererocks key on true, like this?

return {
  "3rd/image.nvim",
  dependencies = {
    "leafo/magick",
    "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter",
    {
      "vhyrro/luarocks.nvim",
      opts = {
        rocks = {
          hererocks = true,
        },
      },
    },
  },

[3rd]

I think if you install 5.1 globally it should just work, luarocks.nvim says it needs a global LuaJIT/Lua 5.1 installation.

[sebalfaro]

Thank you @3rd

[kapral18]

@3rd luajit is installed with neovim when using brew because it's a core dependency. I have it now and I see the error about missing magick rock.