compilation error - error: ../liblua/liblua.a: No such file or directory

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when running "make" after downloading the source

g++  obj/proxmark3.o obj/uart.o obj/util.o obj/crapto1/crapto1.o obj/crapto1/crypto1.o obj/mfkey.o obj/loclass/cipher.o obj/loclass/cipherutils.o obj/loclass/des.o obj/loclass/ikeys.o obj/loclass/elite_crack.o obj/loclass/fileutils.o obj/whereami.o obj/mifarehost.o obj/parity.o obj/crc.o obj/crc16.o obj/crc64.o obj/iso14443crc.o obj/iso15693tools.o obj/data.o obj/graph.o obj/ui.o obj/cmddata.o obj/lfdemod.o obj/cmdhf.o obj/cmdhf14a.o obj/cmdhf14b.o obj/cmdhf15.o obj/cmdhfepa.o obj/cmdhflegic.o obj/cmdhficlass.o obj/cmdhfmf.o obj/cmdhfmfu.o obj/cmdhftopaz.o obj/cmdhw.o obj/cmdlf.o obj/cmdlfawid.o obj/cmdlfcotag.o obj/cmdlfem4x.o obj/cmdlffdx.o obj/cmdlfgproxii.o obj/cmdlfhid.o obj/cmdlfhitag.o obj/cmdlfio.o obj/cmdlfindala.o obj/cmdlfjablotron.o obj/cmdlfnexwatch.o obj/cmdlfnoralsy.o obj/cmdlfparadox.o obj/cmdlfpcf7931.o obj/cmdlfpresco.o obj/cmdlfpyramid.o obj/cmdlfsecurakey.o obj/cmdlft55xx.o obj/cmdlfti.o obj/cmdlfviking.o obj/cmdlfvisa2000.o obj/cmdparser.o obj/cmdmain.o obj/scripting.o obj/cmdscript.o obj/pm3_binlib.o obj/pm3_bitlib.o obj/aes.o obj/protocols.o obj/sha1.o obj/cmdcrc.o obj/reveng/reveng.o obj/reveng/cli.o obj/reveng/bmpbit.o obj/reveng/model.o obj/reveng/poly.o obj/reveng/getopt.o obj/proxgui.o obj/proxguiqt.o obj/proxguiqt.moc.o -L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lreadline -lpthread -lm -ltermcap -lncurses ../liblua/liblua.a -ldl -lQtGui -lQtCore -o proxmark3
g++: error: ../liblua/liblua.a: No such file or directory
Makefile:171: recipe for target 'proxmark3' failed
make[1]: *** [proxmark3] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gcc -O2 -Wall -DLUA_COMPAT_ALL -DLUA_USE_LINUX    -c -o lopcodes.o lopcodes.c
gcc -O2 -Wall -DLUA_COMPAT_ALL -DLUA_USE_LINUX    -c -o lparser.o lparser.c

specific problem

error: ../liblua/liblua.a: No such file or directory

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Solution:

sudo apt install -y libtolua-dev

I modified the wiki to address this