Re: Binary Modules for Lua [was Re: External modules]

[Ignacio Castaño <castanyo@...>]

Peter Loveday wrote:
> Hmm, another question; what is the proposed means of an extension calling
> lua library functions?
>
> On windows it is not possible to treat an executable as a DLL, symbols can
> not be exported from an exe.  Various ways that have been suggested are to
> pass a huge struct of callbacks containing each lua function, or to
require
> the actual Lua interpreter to be in a DLL.
>
> Just wondering how you were looking at solving this problem?

Currently, I'm static linking my modules against lua. I think that you can
have an exe that exports symbols, but I may be wrong... The most obvious
solution is to build the lua libraries as a dll and link the modules and the
binaries against it.


Ignacio Castaño
castanyo@yahoo.es


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