diff -uNr lite-xl.orig/meson.build lite-xl/meson.build
--- lite-xl.orig/meson.build
+++ lite-xl/meson.build
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@
     libm = cc.find_library('m', required : false)
     libdl = cc.find_library('dl', required : false)
     threads_dep = dependency('threads')
-    lua_dep = dependency('lua5.2', fallback: ['lua', 'lua_dep'],
+    lua_dep = dependency('lua52', fallback: ['lua', 'lua_dep'],
         default_options: ['shared=false', 'use_readline=false', 'app=false']
     )
     pcre2_dep = dependency('libpcre2-8')
-    sdl_dep = dependency('sdl2', method: 'config-tool')
+    sdl_dep = dependency('sdl2', method: 'pkg-config')
     reproc_dep = dependency('reproc', fallback: ['reproc', 'reproc_dep'],
         default_options: [
             'default_library=static', 'multithreaded=false',