Bug: Redbean demo crashes on startup on MacOS

[sarna]

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What happened?

When I try running the Redbean demo it crashes immediately. I'm not sure why it takes my LUA_PATH into consideration, but it still crashes even if I set LUA_PATH to an empty string.

When I run the regular version it works fine, though.

Version

redbean 3.0.0
macOS 15.3.1 (ARM)

What operating system are you seeing the problem on?

Mac

Relevant log output

> ./redbean-demo-3.0.0.com -vvmbag
D2025-03-02T19:09:04.258731:tool/net/redbean.c:5127:redbean-demo-3:32010] (lua) LuaRunAsset("/.init.lua")
E2025-03-02T19:09:04+000293:tool/net/redbean.c:1206:redbean-demo-3:32010] (lua) failed to run lua code: /zip/.init.lua:1: module 'mymodule' not found:
        no field package.preload['mymodule']
        no file '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/luarocks/3.11.1/share/lua/5.4/mymodule.lua'
        no file '/opt/homebrew/share/lua/5.4/mymodule.lua'
        no file '/opt/homebrew/share/lua/5.4/mymodule/init.lua'
        no file '/opt/homebrew/lib/lua/5.4/mymodule.lua'
        no file '/opt/homebrew/lib/lua/5.4/mymodule/init.lua'
        no file './mymodule.lua'
        no file './mymodule/init.lua'
        no file '/Users/sarna/.luarocks/share/lua/5.4/mymodule.lua'
        no file '/Users/sarna/.luarocks/share/lua/5.4/mymodule/init.lua'
        no file '/opt/homebrew/lib/lua/5.4/mymodule.so'
        no file '/opt/homebrew/lib/lua/5.4/loadall.so'
        no file './mymodule.so'
        no file '/Users/sarna/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.4/mymodule.so'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /zip/.init.lua:1: in main chunk

[sarna]

I managed to fix it in a very simple way:

> echo '' >mymodule.lua
> zip redbean-demo-3.0.0.com mymodule.lua
  adding: mymodule.lua (stored 0%)
> ./redbean-demo-3.0.0.com
I2025-03-02T19:24:29.766346:tool/net/redbean.c:7052:redbean-demo-3:32319] (srvr) listen http://127.0.0.1:8080
I2025-03-02T19:24:29+000076:tool/net/redbean.c:7052:redbean-demo-3:32319] (srvr) listen http://192.168.1.4:8080
I2025-03-02T19:24:30.237122:tool/net/redbean.c:6112:redbean-demo-3:32324] (req) received 127.0.0.1:59328 HTTP11 GET http://127.0.0.1:8080/tool/net/demo/index.html "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15"
I2025-03-02T19:24:30+000166:/zip/.init.lua:76:redbean-demo-3:32324] client is running nil and reports Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15

So I'm pretty sure if mymodule = require "mymodule" was removed from .init.lua it wouldn't crash in the first place.