lua_uuid

Lua library that generate UUIDs leveraging libuuid.

Requirements

The uuid/uuid.h header must be available in the system INCLUDE_PATH, otherwise you will hit an error like:

ld: library not found for -luuid
…
Failed compiling module lua_uuid.so

• Mac OS X
  • brew install ossp-uuid
• Debian Linux; Ubuntu
  • apt-get install uuid-dev

Usage

To generate a new UUID string:

local uuid = require "lua_uuid"
local uuid_str = uuid()

print("New UUID: "..uuid_str)