Re: Cross Compiling Lua

[Peter Shook <pshook@...>]

Andrew Teirney wrote:
> I was just wondering whether anyone knows or has tried compiling lus 
> script to byte code on a windows or linux platform, where the ints are 
> size 32-bits, and then trying to execute this compiled lua chunk on a 
> lua engine where the ints are natively 16-bit.

If you run luac on a 32-bit platform, it's output is guaranteed to run 
on any other 32-bit platform.  Lua can handle the endian switch.
But the output will not run on a 16-bit platform.  You'll have to 
somehow "fix" luac to output 16-bit stuff.

- Peter Shook