I wrote a not very well known LuaJIT to BPF compiler as a part of bcc precisely because of this. It doesn't depend on anything besides LuaJIT (no LLVM, no C, no libbpf, etc). Caveats: it's Lua, it doesn't fast track all the latest from bcc as it's a "for fun" project.

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/tree/master/src/lua#luajit-bp...