lua: reject Lua 5.3

It simply doesn't work, and is hard to make work. Lua 5.3 is a different
language from 5.1 and 5.2, and is different enough to make adding
support a major issue. Most importantly, 5.3 introduced integer types,
which completely mess up any code which deals with numbers.

I tried to make this a compile time check, but failed. Still at least
try to avoid selecting the 5.3 pkg-config package when the generic "lua"
name is used (why can't Lua upstream just provide an official .pc
file...). Maybe this actually covers all cases.

Fixes #1729 (kind of).

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/player/lua.c b/player/lua.c
index 7e44ec4c58..43f549b4ed 100644
--- a/player/lua.c
+++ b/player/lua.c
@@ -377,6 +377,11 @@ static int load_lua(struct mpv_handle *client, const char *fname)
         .filename = fname,
     };
 
+    if (LUA_VERSION_NUM != 501 && LUA_VERSION_NUM != 502) {
+        MP_FATAL(ctx, "Only Lua 5.1 and 5.2 are supported.\n");
+        goto error_out;
+    }
+
     lua_State *L = ctx->state = luaL_newstate();
     if (!L)
         goto error_out;