Re: Help needed calling Lua from my C function

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> The error function myError doesn't get called.
> 
>     lua_pushcfunction(L,myError);
>     lua_setglobal(L,"_ALERT");

Lua 5.1 no longer uses _ALERT. The correct idiom is something like

 if (luaL_loadfile(L,"test.lua") || lua_pcall(L,0,0,0))
  fprintf(stderr,"%s\n",lua_tostring(L,-1));

This also holds for 5.0, though _ALERT was still available for
compatibility only.
--lhf