Re: Lua libraries

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 07:59 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo 
wrote:

> > loadlib "wxlua"
>
> loadlib already exists (as an addon) and defines a simple protocol for
> loading and unloading a library. It's a good start.

Ah, but which loadlib?  I know of at least three lua extensions by that 
name.

> loadlib must be an addon because it cannot be written in ANSI C.

And it can't be written in POSIX C either.  It's one of the harder 
things to get portable.  I think we should seriously consider stealing 
the dynamic loading code from another tool, possibly Python, to avoid 
having to go through that headache ourselves.

Jay