Lua - C interfacing [RE: Lua documentation, Python, etc.]

[Asko Kauppi <Asko.Kauppi@...>]

I've extended the 'glua10' found at Lua's "tools" page to get better C / Lua
integration. I agree that the native tools for this are still too ...
clumsy.

My idea is to have a stand-alone "original" lua interpreter, which
automatically scans a certain "extensions" directory for any modules placed
in there by the user / admin. It'll call those modules, letting them
register with itself and voila!

This means your C code should be in DLLs. If you want to avoid them
completely, you'll need to compile a monolithic app + lua like everyone's
now supposed to be doing.

- Asko

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Asko Kauppi
Flextronics Design Finland
Box 23, 39201 Kyröskoski, Finland
www.flextronics.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Pyrogon Public [SMTP:public@pyrogon.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:11 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	RE: Lua documentation, Python, etc.
> 
> To clarify, when I complain about the documentation it's mostly that I'm
> not experienced with integrating a scripting language into a core engine
> directly.  The previous games I've worked on used DLLs for their
> modification and scripting, so issues like conversion between compiled
> and scripted data structures never really came up.
> 
> I've read Roberto's book, but it's 4.0 only and doesn't cover 4.1, and
> most of what I see are language references or very domain specific
> tutorials, whereas what would be particularly helpful to me (and maybe
> it's just me, so take this with a grain of salt) is a tutorial that
> shows how to integrate a Lua scripting system with a C/C++ main engine
> (or vice versa).
> 
> Learning Lua itself isn't that difficult, it's the integration with a
> compiled binary that's the tough part (philosophically speaking, the
> real tough part is also figuring where to draw the line between the
> two).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
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