From 2b4d362a90e789142ea5cbe16487e36cbdb4a9cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: slowsage <84777606+slowsage@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 11:54:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat(mlua-sys): add system-deps metadata section

---
 mlua-sys/Cargo.toml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mlua-sys/Cargo.toml b/mlua-sys/Cargo.toml
index 3029566d..ea135fdb 100644
--- a/mlua-sys/Cargo.toml
+++ b/mlua-sys/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,3 +47,11 @@ luau0-src = { version = "0.18.0", optional = true }
 
 [lints.rust]
 unexpected_cfgs = { level = "allow", check-cfg = ['cfg(raw_dylib)'] }
+
+[package.metadata.system-deps]
+lua55 = { name = "lua", fallback-names = ["lua5.5", "lua-5.5", "lua55"], version = ">= 5.5, < 5.6", feature = "lua55" }
+lua54 = { name = "lua", fallback-names = ["lua5.4", "lua-5.4", "lua54"], version = ">= 5.4, < 5.5", feature = "lua54" }
+lua53 = { name = "lua", fallback-names = ["lua5.3", "lua-5.3", "lua53"], version = ">= 5.3, < 5.4", feature = "lua53" }
+lua52 = { name = "lua", fallback-names = ["lua5.2", "lua-5.2", "lua52"], version = ">= 5.2, < 5.3", feature = "lua52" }
+lua51 = { name = "lua", fallback-names = ["lua5.1", "lua-5.1", "lua51"], version = ">= 5.1, < 5.2", feature = "lua51" }
+luajit = { name = "luajit", version = ">= 2.0.4, < 2.2", feature = "luajit" }

From d8c07dfad4bf221a991080d09386c97e5c736dd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: slowsage <84777606+slowsage@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 11:56:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] refactor(mlua-sys): migrate from pkg-config to
 system-deps

---
 mlua-sys/Cargo.toml           |  2 +-
 mlua-sys/build/find_normal.rs | 35 ++---------------------------------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mlua-sys/Cargo.toml b/mlua-sys/Cargo.toml
index ea135fdb..08c5842d 100644
--- a/mlua-sys/Cargo.toml
+++ b/mlua-sys/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ libc = "0.2"
 [build-dependencies]
 cc = "1.0"
 cfg-if = "1.0"
-pkg-config = "0.3.17"
+system-deps = "7.0"
 lua-src = { version = ">= 550.0.0, < 550.1.0", optional = true }
 luajit-src = { version = ">= 210.6.0, < 210.7.0", optional = true }
 luau0-src = { version = "0.18.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/mlua-sys/build/find_normal.rs b/mlua-sys/build/find_normal.rs
index b91b1c01..a35866c2 100644
--- a/mlua-sys/build/find_normal.rs
+++ b/mlua-sys/build/find_normal.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 
 use std::env;
-use std::ops::Bound;
 
 pub fn probe_lua() {
     let target_arch = env::var("CARGO_CFG_TARGET_ARCH").unwrap();
@@ -29,36 +28,6 @@ pub fn probe_lua() {
         return;
     }
 
-    // Find using `pkg-config`
-
-    #[cfg(feature = "lua55")]
-    let (incl_bound, excl_bound, alt_probe, ver) = ("5.5", "5.6", ["lua5.5", "lua-5.5", "lua55"], "5.5");
-    #[cfg(feature = "lua54")]
-    let (incl_bound, excl_bound, alt_probe, ver) = ("5.4", "5.5", ["lua5.4", "lua-5.4", "lua54"], "5.4");
-    #[cfg(feature = "lua53")]
-    let (incl_bound, excl_bound, alt_probe, ver) = ("5.3", "5.4", ["lua5.3", "lua-5.3", "lua53"], "5.3");
-    #[cfg(feature = "lua52")]
-    let (incl_bound, excl_bound, alt_probe, ver) = ("5.2", "5.3", ["lua5.2", "lua-5.2", "lua52"], "5.2");
-    #[cfg(feature = "lua51")]
-    let (incl_bound, excl_bound, alt_probe, ver) = ("5.1", "5.2", ["lua5.1", "lua-5.1", "lua51"], "5.1");
-    #[cfg(feature = "luajit")]
-    let (incl_bound, excl_bound, alt_probe, ver) = ("2.0.4", "2.2", [], "JIT");
-
-    #[rustfmt::skip]
-    let mut lua = pkg_config::Config::new()
-        .range_version((Bound::Included(incl_bound), Bound::Excluded(excl_bound)))
-        .cargo_metadata(true)
-        .probe(if cfg!(feature = "luajit") { "luajit" } else { "lua" });
-
-    if lua.is_err() {
-        for pkg in alt_probe {
-            lua = pkg_config::Config::new().cargo_metadata(true).probe(pkg);
-
-            if lua.is_ok() {
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    lua.unwrap_or_else(|err| panic!("cannot find Lua{ver} using `pkg-config`: {err}"));
+    // This reads [package.metadata.system-deps] from Cargo.toml
+    system_deps::Config::new().probe().unwrap();
 }