Compiled version doesn't show bar

[SolsticeSpectrum]

I chose to abandon Homebrew since it doesn't support MacOS Big Sur anyway and some stuff compiled for hours. I switched to MacPorts which is significantly faster but installing SketchyBar from MacPorts makes it broken for some reason. It runs but there is no bar visible. So I tried compiling from source which results in same behaviour. There is no error log tho.

[Capybara121]

Could you describe your compilation process? I've previously recompiled the project myself to fix an off by 1 error (#592), and everything works fine.

[SolsticeSpectrum]

I followed these steps

git clone https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar.git
cd SketchyBar
make
mv bin/sketchybar /usr/local/bin
mkdir -p ~/.config/sketchybar
mv plugins ~/.config/sketchybar/
mv sketchybarrc ~/.config/sketchybar/

then I created git.felix.sketchybar.plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
and pasted there what I found here #541

This setup works but when I attempt to use lua extension, it stops from displaying. I install that like this

sudo port install lua
(git clone https://github.com/FelixKratz/SbarLua.git /tmp/SbarLua && cd /tmp/SbarLua/ && make install && rm -rf /tmp/SbarLua/)

then I replace files in ~/.config/sketchybar with ones found here https://github.com/FelixKratz/SbarLua/tree/main/example

This makes the bar not show up even tho it is running
It also has no output in the terminal, just blank
There is something at the top of the screen tho

I can't use brew because I have old macbook and there are problems with brew, mainly extremely long compilation times of stuff like openssl

[SolsticeSpectrum]

I FIXED IT: The problem was that macports installs old version of lua, I did this instead

curl -L -R -O https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.4.7.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-5.4.7.tar.gz
cd lua-5.4.7
make all
sudo make install

and then ran this again

(git clone https://github.com/FelixKratz/SbarLua.git /tmp/SbarLua && cd /tmp/SbarLua/ && make install && rm -rf /tmp/SbarLua/)