Homebrew

lit.rb

class Lit < Formula
  desc "Toolkit for developing, sharing, and running luvit/lua programs and libraries."
  homepage "https://github.com/luvit/lit"
  url "https://lit.luvit.io/packages/luvit/lit/v2.2.4.zip"
  sha256 "73216738ff9d25f14c53633c4b7786bd007a95c6e2aa536cafc846744cc0950f"

  depends_on "luvi" => :build

  def install
    system "luvi", buildpath, "--", "make"
    bin.install "lit"
  end

  test do
    system "#{BIN}/lit"
  end
end

luvi.rb

class Luvi < Formula
  desc "A project in-between luv and luvit, lua packages."
  homepage "https://github.com/luvit/luvi"
  url "https://github.com/luvit/luvi/releases/download/v2.1.8/luvi-src-v2.1.8.tar.gz"
  sha256 "1ef449c6a76bcf7a03c8bbcdd5423b0366d63b10c52fd463ca2ba8aaf9248781"

  depends_on "cmake" => :build

  def install
    system "make", "regular-asm"
    system "make"
    bin.install "build/luvi"
  end

  test do
    system "make", "test"
  end
end

luvit.rb

class Luvit < Formula
  desc "Asynchronous I/O for Lua (node.js style powered by luajit and libuv)"
  homepage "https://luvit.io/"
  url "https://lit.luvit.io/packages/luvit/luvit/v2.4.2.zip"
  sha256 "f81cc4de2324c750aa65bd8fff588f9cd21dbeba731288dbe49a7006380c8aab"

  depends_on "lit" => :build

  def install
    system "lit", "make", buildpath
    bin.install "luvit"
  end

  test do
    system "#{BIN}/luvit", "-v"
  end
end

To test this, create these on your local homebrew with brew create lit, brew create luvi, brew create luvit. Replace the template with these files.

Once you've created then, run brew install luvit to test.

Currently this builds luvi and lit for me, but ssl seems broken.

➜  lit git:(master) ✗ lit publish modules/git.lua
lit version: 0.9.1
command: publish modules/git.lua
load config: /Users/timc/.litconfig
no change: creationix/git/v0.1.0
connecting: wss://lit.luvit.io
fail: [string "bundle:modules/coro-tls.lua"]:14: attempt to call method 'set_verify' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
    [string "bundle:modules/coro-tls.lua"]:14: in function 'tlsWrap'
    [string "bundle:lib/rdb.lua"]:28: in function 'connectRemote'
    [string "bundle:lib/rdb.lua"]:68: in function 'connect'
    [string "bundle:lib/rdb.lua"]:88: in function 'readRemote'
    [string "bundle:lib/core.lua"]:98: in function 'publish'
    [string "bundle:commands/publish.lua"]:8: in function 'fn'
    [string "bundle:modules/require.lua"]:189: in function 'formatter'
    [string "bundle:modules/require.lua"]:172: in function 'loader'
    [string "bundle:modules/require.lua"]:98: in function 'finder'
    [string "bundle:modules/require.lua"]:251: in function 'require'
    [string "bundle:main.lua"]:12: in function <[string "bundle:main.lua"]:8>
    [C]: in function 'xpcall'
    [string "bundle:main.lua"]:8: in function <[string "bundle:main.lua"]:6>

Fixed and updated for luvi 0.7.1 and lit 0.10.0.

Updated to luvi 2.1.7 and lit 2.1.11.