Refactor the lua dependency checking.

This is in preparation for the next step, which is to find a suitable
lua interpreter, rather than just erroring when an interpreter is found
but doesn't have the necessary dependencies.

Helped-by: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cmake/LuaHelpers.cmake b/cmake/LuaHelpers.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b1e67e0ca7
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+++ b/cmake/LuaHelpers.cmake
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+#
+# Functions to help checking for a Lua interpreter
+#
+
+# Check if a module is available in Lua
+function(check_lua_module LUA_PRG_PATH MODULE RESULT_VAR)
+  execute_process(COMMAND ${LUA_PRG_PATH} -e "require('${MODULE}')"
+    RESULT_VARIABLE module_missing
+    ERROR_QUIET)
+  if(module_missing)
+    message(STATUS
+      "[${LUA_PRG_PATH}] The '${MODULE}' lua package is required for building Neovim")
+    set(${RESULT_VAR} False PARENT_SCOPE)
+  else()
+    set(${RESULT_VAR} True PARENT_SCOPE)
+  endif()
+endfunction()
+
+# Check Lua interpreter for dependencies
+function(check_lua_deps LUA_PRG_PATH MODULES RESULT_VAR)
+  # Check if the lua interpreter at the given path
+  # satisfies all Neovim dependencies
+  message(STATUS "Checking Lua interpreter ${LUA_PRG_PATH}")
+  if(NOT EXISTS ${LUA_PRG_PATH})
+    message(STATUS
+      "[${LUA_PRG_PATH}] file not found")
+  endif()
+
+  foreach(module ${MODULES})
+    check_lua_module(${LUA_PRG_PATH} ${module} has_module)
+    if(NOT has_module)
+      set(${RESULT_VAR} False PARENT_SCOPE)
+      return()
+    endif()
+  endforeach()
+
+  set(${RESULT_VAR} True PARENT_SCOPE)
+endfunction()