dynamically associating functions with lua

[Martin Slater <mslater@...>]

Hi there,

I'm looking at lua for driving a utility that loads it functions from 
dll's. The available functions are enumerated by the main app via an 
interface into the dll, all functions have the same type and retrieve 
their parameters off an internal stack. The problem i want to solve is 
exposing these functions to lua. Currently the parameter types are 
encoded by the plugin developer so the main app can type check its input 
and it would be nice to be able to make these available lua.

The only thought i have is to auto generate a lua script that implements 
a function stub of the same name as the the dll function, push the 
function name and all its parameters into a table and call a 'c' side 
do_function_call that pulls this info and makes the call.

Does anyone have any better ides for doing this?

Thanks

Martin