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Re bloat and wxWindows...
maybe one could do a binding to a subset of wxWindows, not like wxLua that tries to include everything wx has to offer... But then, what could be left out? Mainly anything that is not GUI related, as that would/should be coverd by other Luamodules (Sockets, DBI etc)
Just consider a (statically) linked WxWindows app. Filesizes of about 500kb for a simple editor etc. 
The complete wxLua binary is arounf 2MB...

-Martin

Juergen Fuhrmann wrote:


Hi,


From the WIKI:



Vis Lua Implementation
This is some notes on various issues to do with the implementation of VisLua. 
GUI library
There are hundreds of GUI libraries [1], but few good portable, well maintained ones. Here are some options :- 
  wxWindows [2]. This is quite a big library but had lots of useful widgets and is quite portable. Platforms supported are [3]
  :-                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Bloat!
Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME. Linux and other Unix platforms with GTK+.
^^^^ Bloat!
Unix with Motif or the free Motif clone Lesstif. 
                                                ^^^^^^^
Bloat!

So it does _not_ run on top of plain X11R6. We would depend on GTK+ or
Motif/Lesstif to get it ported.  IMHO nearly impossible to get the job
done.
Mac OS. Embedded platforms are being investigated. See the wxUniversal project. An OS/2 port is in progress, and you can also compile wxWindows for GTK+ or Motif on OS/2. FLTK [4]. Quite compact and fast, as name implies. Not particularly portable. Platforms :- X - Unix.
Just on top of plain X11R6 and glx (for OpenGL) without any additional library. Very clean, appearantly works everywhere where C++ and X works, i.e. on every **ix/ux
Win32. 
        Now MacOS. (see www.fltk.org)
Embedded platforms being investigated. See e.g. http://www.ssv-embedded.de/trm/021203gui.htm.

May be  my bloat statements are a  bit drastic, so please  do not take
them personally,  but LuaCheia already  seems to become  quite complex
and we need to keep the ends...

Juergen