Re: Lua libraries

[Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <bogado@...>]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 13:10, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2002, Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:
> 
> Another approach is to "wrap" C libraries in Lua, and then use the new
> "require" function to load them. In your program, you would always write
> 
>   require "libname"
> 
> without worring whether you are loading a Lua library or a C library.
> For C libraries, we would put in the lib directory a Lua file like this:
> 
>   loadlib("/xxx/yyy/.../...")
> 
> or even
> 
>   loadlib("/xxx/yyy/.../...", "initfunc")
> 
> To adjust between diferent systems you only need to edit this small file.
> 
> Because loadlib is not portable, we should try to keep it as simple as
> possible.
> 

	I personaly don't like this solution, this would require a diferent
file for each plataform. I think it is cleaner to have a diferent lib
loader for each plataform and a single source for a library for all
plataforms. Perl works this way, and I think python too. 

	There is a multiplataform library loader in glib, maybe we should check
this.
 
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[]'s Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
victor@visgraf.impa.br