Re: Using Lua in a C(++) program

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

I assume you were using Win32 & MingW, right?

There is no real reason to compile lua & lualibs as dlls under Win32. 
You can also compile them into a standalone exe, which i personally 
find much a simpler approach. Also, in order to 'use' lua, i think 
people shouldn't need to compile lua at all. It only creates an 
entry-level step, as you have faced.

We need a good, clean, ready-baked Lua distribution where these issues 
have been taken care of.

-ak


Johannes Hager kirjoittaa torstaina, 12. kesäkuuta 2003, kello 02:29:

> I will look at this stuff. But since i begann to try implement lua in 
> a c++
> program their are only problemes. For example after i includede 
> "lauxlib.h",
> "lua_open()"  works no more, if you will not going a bit mad with the 
> time
> :-)
>
>
> > Johannes Hager wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > And there i have the next problem. Now runs lua. But if i try to do
> > > lua_dostring(...) the compiler doesnt know ist. How can it be that
> > > open_lua() and close lua() works but lua_dostring not? *frustation*
> >
> > In Lua 5.0, lua_dostring has been moved to lauxlib.h.
> >
> > Do this:
> >
> > extern "C" {
> > #include "lua.h"
> > #include "lauxlib.h"
> > #include "lualib.h"
> > }
> >
> > Relax man, haste makes waste.  You are systematically getting stuck on
> > each one of the FAQs for this mailing list.  Instead, you should check
> > out the wiki, and the web interface to the mailing list archive.
> > There's lots of good stuff there.
> >
> > http://lua-users.org/
> >
> > http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaDirectory