Sometimes I wonder why people use Windows when Linux is free and has to some degree all of the same features. Then someone like mikshaw comes along and straightens me out.

The lua all in one project (luaaio) would seem to have some synergies with a murgalua packaging project. They recently released their first linux package which has mysql.so and a bunch of other xxxxx.so modules. I guess you'd still need to make sure there is a compatible libmysql.so.xx.