How to include Lua API into own Lua applications

package.path = package.path .. ';/usr/local/share/lua/?.lua' local likwid = require("likwid")

Now all function and variables can be called with
likwid.functionname()
or
likwid.variable

Global variables defined by LIKWID's Lua API

Variablename	Description
groupfolder	Path to the folder containing the definitions of the performance groups
version	Version of LIKWID
release	Release number of LIKWID
pinlibpath	Path to the pinning library. Is added automatically to $LD_PRELOAD by `likwid-pin` and `likwid-perfctr`
hline	Horizontal line with 80 '-' characters
sline	Horizontal line with 80 '*' characters
dline	Horizontal line with 80 '=' characters

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