Re: require and function names

[Merick <Merick_TeVaran@...>]

Stefan Brantschen wrote:
> As (by default) module foo is loaded into table foo, foo.screen will 
> be different from bar.screen.
>
> <http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.3>
I'm using FreeBasic to make a script interpreter that I call FBlua.

Based on  the example from here: 
http://lua-users.org/wiki/CreatingBinaryExtensionModules
I made this to test if I could make binary modules with  FreeBasic:

'test.bas

#include once "windows.bi"
#include once "lua/lauxlib.bi"

'Pop-up a Windows message box with your choice of message and caption
function lua_msgbox Cdecl (Byval L As lua_State Ptr) As Integer
   var message = luaL_checkstring(L, 1)
   var caption = luaL_optstring(L, 2, "")
   var result = MessageBox(NULL, message, caption, MB_OK)
   lua_pushnumber(L, result)
  return 1
end function

function luaopen_test Cdecl alias "luaopen_test" (Byval L As lua_State 
Ptr) As Integer export
  lua_register(L, "msgbox",  @lua_msgbox)
  return 0
end function 

When I use Freebasic to compile that into a windows .dll,  I can load it 
into FBlua with this script:

require("test")

msgbox("Hey, it worked!", "Lua Message Box")

As you can see,  loading my test.dll puts the function directly into the 
lua state by itself and not as part of a table...