How to use LuaDist?

Question

IDE

I downloaded the LuaDist kit recommended for a quick start in Lua. A bunch of .exe, some directories. How to use all this? There is no installer, there is not even a description on the site of what these programs are in the kit and why. I even accidentally found some kind of IDE there, but it's still not the case. Tell me, did I miss something and, in fact, everything is clear there, or is it customary in this set, in the style of "no time to explain - keep a bunch of crap"?
Advise at the same time the finished assembly with the IDE, please. There are plans to use Lua for source code analysis on the Love engine.

Answer 1

1) to be honest, it is quite in vain recommended. And appeared in due time because of the "luarocks" stopper. But the latter has recently received a new life, while luadist, on the contrary, has died. Well, his maintainers suffered a lot from the NIH syndrome.
2) Actually, your claim about the lack of documentation should be to the one who "recommended" it to you.
3) You still come from the wrong side.
If your goal is to learn the code, just install an IDE for Lua (there are several of them, I will not advertise), or any universal IDE with support for Lua syntax highlighting.
If you are going to "compile"[1] code in the same way, you can also install LuaRocks (a package manager for libraries and utilities in Lua).
You just need to understand that the main target audience of these utilities are developers who ALREADY have an idea of ​​​​what and how (and, as a rule, use Linux or Mac), so the usual "inexperienced" windows user (where the work with the terminal as such was done at least somehow -something possible only to win10, not to mention its convenience) it may seem unusual and inconvenient.
PS As a rule, all such commands support the --help option (I don't know how they are compiled for Windows, maybe /? will be for it)
[1] in the case of LÖVE compilation = wrapping the code in a zip-archive, optionally for Windows they sometimes do packaging it, along with the love interpreter and the lua interpreter, into a single executable PE file.