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

[Enno Rehling <enno@...>]

Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva wrote:

>     Every now and then someone asks this same question. :-) Lua is also 
> valid C++ code, so one might want to compile it this way.

If more people ask, then probably because it's so uncommon. Make and other 
build tools certainly wouldn't use the c++ compiler unless you force them 
to, and why you wanted to do that, I don't know. So why allow that? And if 
you really want to allow it, make sure people are aware of what they are 
doing (making a lib that won't work with plain C), and have them explicitly 
#define a variable (which could then also disable the extern "C" part).
Really. Haven't seen a library in years that didn't have a __cplusplus 
encapsulated extern "C", and I've seen my share.

Enno.