Open Source Lua Frameworks for Windows

IUP is a portable toolkit for building graphical user interfaces. It offers a configuration API in three basic languages: C, Lua and LED. IUP purpose is to allow a program to be executed in different systems without any modification.

Cross-platform python dynamic bindings of GObject-based libraries for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

CD (Canvas Draw) is a platform-independent graphics library. It is implemented in several platforms using native graphics libraries: Windows (GDI) and X-Windows (XLIB). The canvas is an abstract surface that can be a window, an image or a metafile.

wxLua is a Lua scripting language wrapper for the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI library. It consists of executables for editing, running, and debugging wxLua scripts, a library for extending C++ programs with a fast, small, fully embeddable scripting language, and a variety of sample programs. With wxLua you can quickly write full-featured programs with graphics, networking, printing, etc. for MS Windows, Linux, and OSX.

IM is a toolkit for Digital Imaging. IM is based on 4 concepts: Image Representation, Storage, Processing and Capture. The main goal of the library is to provide a simple API and abstraction of images for scientific applications.

LOVE is a free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua.

NiL is a modular multi-purpose gaming engine including a multiplayer worm game a little like quake, except it's 2d and a little like worms except it's realtime.

hiperGL - Is a 2D OpenGL hardware accelerated blitter, graphic loader, frame manager, a DIV like sprite system, and more utilities for creating video games. It works under SDL. It's portable, and easy to use.

LuaDist is a CMake built module distribution and deployment tool for the Lua programming language. It aims to achieve zero configuration runtime environment for Lua modules and libraries be it source or binary.

Fast prototyping environment in Lua for GUI, DSP and ANN development. Based on lqt, lfann, and our code. Goal minimal build dependencies. Only contains what we or any contributor needs.

MicroCity is a framework for spatial analysis and simulation. It is lightweight, fast, portable, extendable and user friendly. Users can easily operate large GIS and Grid data and perform Spatial, Fractal, Network analysis and simulation.

Scrupp is a cross-platform 2D engine which uses SDL and OpenGL for visualization. It is controlled by external Lua scripts. The core supports various image, sound, music and font formats. The hard work is done by plugins written in Lua.

mod_pLua is a module for the Apache httpd web server, that enables the use of preprocessed (html-embedded) Lua scripts using a PHP-like syntax as well as CGI-style interfacing, but at a much faster pace. For a more detailed description, see the wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/modplua/wiki/