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

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.