Re: Can this be done? (loading extensions from dlls / so's at runti me)

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

>1. I'd use a generic "lua interpreter" (like the one provided in the
>package)
>
>2. In the lua scripts run through that interpreter, they'd say "load
>my_extensions.so" (or something like that), dynamically linking to the
>functions etc. resources within the ".so".
>
>This isn't possible with the current implementation, right?

No, because it depends on system-specific code for dynamically linking.
For a simple addon that does that for Unix and Windows, see
	ftp://ftp.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/pub/lhf/loadlib.tar.gz
--lhf