Re: External modules was Re: Ideas for implementing commercial support for Lua

[Ignacio Castaño <castanyo@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> Currently, our idea is to put the minimum in C, and everything else in
> Lua. Typically, each module in C would have a companion file in Lua:
> this Lua file could be very small, more or less like this:
>
>     -- Lua file for module Xuxu: xuxu.lua
>     -- Config part; set to your system
>     local libdir = "/usr/local/lua/"
>     local modname = "xuxu.so"
>
>     local f = loadlib(libdir..modname, "xuxuopen")
>     if not f then error (...) end
>     f()   -- open module
>
> You put xuxu.so anywhere, adjust xuxu.lua, and put xuxu.lua in a
> directory on your LUA_PATH; than you use it as
>
>     require "xuxu"
>
> For the user, it doesn't matter whether this is a C module or a Lua
> module (or a mixed one).

Ok, I see, that's fine then!
I'm eager to start seen extension modules distributed that way.


Ignacio Castaño
castanyo@yahoo.es


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