Can't build in Ubuntu "exec: ninja: not found"

How are you using the lua-language-server?

Command Line

Which OS are you using?

Windows

What is the issue affecting?

Other

Expected Behaviour

Compilation succeeds

Actual Behaviour

rhys@RhysDesktop:~$ git clone https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server
cd lua-language-server
Cloning into 'lua-language-server'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 64631, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (2562/2562), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (891/891), done.
remote: Total 64631 (delta 1726), reused 2411 (delta 1663), pack-reused 62069 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (64631/64631), 25.14 MiB | 19.31 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (47348/47348), done.
rhys@RhysDesktop:~/lua-language-server$ ls
3rd         LICENSE    changelog.md  doc     main.lua  make.bat  make.sh  script  test.lua         tools
Dockerfile  README.md  debugger.lua  locale  make      make.lua  meta     test    theme-tokens.md
rhys@RhysDesktop:~/lua-language-server$ ./make.sh
Submodule '3rd/EmmyLuaCodeStyle' (https://github.com/CppCXY/EmmyLuaCodeStyle) registered for path '3rd/EmmyLuaCodeStyle'
Submodule '3rd/bee.lua' (https://github.com/actboy168/bee.lua) registered for path '3rd/bee.lua'
Submodule '3rd/json.lua' (https://github.com/actboy168/json.lua) registered for path '3rd/json.lua'
Submodule '3rd/love-api' (https://github.com/love2d-community/love-api) registered for path '3rd/love-api'
Submodule '3rd/lovr-api' (https://github.com/bjornbytes/lovr-docs) registered for path '3rd/lovr-api'
Submodule '3rd/lpeglabel' (https://github.com/sqmedeiros/lpeglabel) registered for path '3rd/lpeglabel'
Submodule '3rd/luamake' (https://github.com/actboy168/luamake) registered for path '3rd/luamake'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/Cocos4.0' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/cocos4.0.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/Cocos4.0'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/Defold' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/defold.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/Defold'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/Jass' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/jass.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/Jass'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/OpenResty' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/openresty.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/OpenResty'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/bee' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/bee.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/bee'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/busted' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/busted.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/busted'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/ffi-reflect' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/ffi-reflect.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/ffi-reflect'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/lfs' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/luafilesystem.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/lfs'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/love2d' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/love2d.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/love2d'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/lovr' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/lovr.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/lovr'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/luaecs' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/luaecs.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/luaecs'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/luassert' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/luassert.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/luassert'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/luv' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/luv.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/luv'
Submodule 'meta/3rd/skynet' (https://github.com/LuaCATS/skynet.git) registered for path 'meta/3rd/skynet'
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/EmmyLuaCodeStyle'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/bee.lua'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/json.lua'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/love-api'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/lovr-api'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/lpeglabel'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/luamake'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/Cocos4.0'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/Defold'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/Jass'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/OpenResty'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/bee'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/busted'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/ffi-reflect'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/lfs'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/love2d'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/lovr'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/luaecs'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/luassert'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/luv'...
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/meta/3rd/skynet'...
Submodule path '3rd/EmmyLuaCodeStyle': checked out 'e728970f81e887aa4078edaf93af895311bf667e'
Submodule path '3rd/bee.lua': checked out '8c01c7d79612d47f47f17d80304e66ae14d7b953'
Submodule path '3rd/json.lua': checked out '9ae6772870ff0480ec83fc88dc8ffa52880b3a98'
Submodule 'test/ltest' (https://github.com/actboy168/ltest) registered for path '3rd/json.lua/test/ltest'
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/json.lua/test/ltest'...
Submodule path '3rd/json.lua/test/ltest': checked out '5d72d81cf64e78b6a057f383cc6237b59f05b90f'
Submodule path '3rd/love-api': checked out '853639288547618dece86c3a8e52348fe304eba2'
Submodule path '3rd/lovr-api': checked out 'e89c753e1c2849b7533481fcf058095f8e050b9f'
Submodule path '3rd/lpeglabel': checked out '912b0b9e8641074408ffc2259e069b188e0c717b'
Submodule path '3rd/luamake': checked out 'c086f35cfad0236f74ba380d51f211c52a2c8abc'
Submodule '3rd/bee.lua' (https://github.com/actboy168/bee.lua) registered for path '3rd/luamake/bee.lua'
Cloning into '/home/rhys/lua-language-server/3rd/luamake/bee.lua'...
Submodule path '3rd/luamake/bee.lua': checked out '038aef6f41dc09dad43325e5d3cdc3e207b6d3c0'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/Cocos4.0': checked out 'c0b2259e0d367561fd4563ae114b029b4dfe3a8f'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/Defold': checked out '05379b40fb3084d82f7270475e42da8d521c4dae'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/Jass': checked out '80d85cbbfd8ae2473fb39c7df4be814602f5bc4f'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/OpenResty': checked out '3bec36f0f645bb38b3c8208990d5c36feb66ce3d'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/bee': checked out 'c0bc5349e5fa741d7ad8d6d5c7624a54dcfd9ebe'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/busted': checked out '5ed85d0e016a5eb5eca097aa52905eedf1b180f1'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/ffi-reflect': checked out 'e9037efca4021a15552b281f5e91418afd370d8f'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/lfs': checked out '9b5cfc15be744c829c66519cb11e49669ae7e39b'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/love2d': checked out 'dad72a7eae31f35bf4c6529e5b81f6187b5b7377'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/lovr': checked out '3ba215f98e1647111b50b311d45c31338fdc615f'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/luaecs': checked out '21192fbdccc0f140dae2f74f7c3ec7d74e2aadd0'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/luassert': checked out 'd3528bb679302cbfdedefabb37064515ab95f7b9'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/luv': checked out '3615eb12c94a7cfa7184b8488cf908abb5e94c9c'
Submodule path 'meta/3rd/skynet': checked out 'afa6717ac4f71e42012fa2ebf4b410d04db647ae'
~/lua-language-server/3rd/luamake ~/lua-language-server
./compile/build.sh: 36: exec: ninja: not found
~/lua-language-server
./make.sh: line 8: 3rd/luamake/luamake: No such file or directory

Reproduction steps

See full log above (including clone). I'm doing this in Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS via Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Additional Notes

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Log File

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Inizia con make.sh e 3rd/luamake/compile/build.sh, quindi riproduci ./make.sh in Ubuntu 24.04.1 sotto WSL. Traccia il fallimento di ninja segnalato e verifica che un clone pulito possa completare il percorso di build senza il successivo errore dovuto all’assenza di luamake.