Build failing with lua.c:80:31: fatal error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory

[DarthJahus]

Building on Windows subsystem for Linux, fails with:

/luadec/lua-5.3$ sudo make linux
cd src && make linux
make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/c/Users/jahus/lua/luadec/lua-5.3/src'
make all SYSCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_LINUX" SYSLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline"
make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/c/Users/jahus/lua/luadec/lua-5.3/src'
gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Wextra -DLUA_COMPAT_5_2 -DLUA_USE_LINUX    -c -o lua.o lua.c
lua.c:80:31: fatal error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
<builtin>: recipe for target 'lua.o' failed
make[2]: *** [lua.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/mnt/c/Users/jahus/lua/luadec/lua-5.3/src'
Makefile:110: recipe for target 'linux' failed
make[1]: *** [linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/c/Users/jahus/lua/luadec/lua-5.3/src'
Makefile:55: recipe for target 'linux' failed
make: *** [linux] Error 2

What are the prerequisites? Lua 5.3 is installed.

[utkinn]

It seems to require readline GNU library and ncurses.

sudo apt install libreadline6-dev
sudo apt install libncurses5-dev