What are the necessary files?

[pandasoli]

After fixing some errors and managing to correctly compile lua-language-server I executed bin/lua-language-server and it works, but when coping this single executable to ~/.local/bin it stops working and give this error:

./lua-language-server: cannot open (bootstrap.lua): No such file or directory

I tried coping the whole bin folder to ~/.local/bin and when running lua-language-server it shows:

./lua-language-server: (bootstrap.lua):85: cannot open ~/.local/bin/main.lua: No such file or directory
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'assert'
	(bootstrap.lua):85: in main chunk
	[C]: in ?

If I move main.lua one directory back into ~/.local/bin it comes back to the first error.

What is the right way of install it? Running directly from the source folder doesn't seem like a good approach

[hinell]

The right sequence of commands to build lls under Linux systems is following (run from project's root):

./3rd/luamake/luamake build bootstrap lua-language-server
./3rd/luamake/luamake build copy_bootstrap copy_lua-language-server

$ ls ./bin/
lua-language-server  main.lua

The code above basically builds and copies lls to bin/ folder and then copies make/bootstrap.lua to bin/main.lua. The latter actually pulls up files located in ./script/, so if you want to install it locally to $HOME/.local/bin/, you have to copy scripts folder as well.

There is probably ENVIRONMENT var that allows you to specify path to runtime script/ folder instead, but I didn't dig it up.

I've configured my Lazy.nvim to build lls by those two commands above.