Re: request for interest/participants: another lua C++ binding

[Oliver Schoenborn <oliver.schoenborn@...>]

Chris Marrin wrote:
> Oliver Schoenborn wrote:
> > Hello, I'm somewhat unhappy with the existing bindings to C++. The 
> > major ones
> >
> >    * lua++: clean and simple, but requires custom lua
> >    * cpplua: some good ideas, but some less good, and doesn't seem to
> >      be maintained
> >    * luabind: most powerful, but requires boost, and syntax a little
> >      unnatural (IMO)
> >    * swig and tolua++: don't allow for variable argument lists (AFAICT)
> >      or for logging callbacks and gets/sets
> >
> > I have had to use basic lua binding to C for on-the-job projects, and 
> > I'm thinking that because of the above, perhaps yet another C++ 
> > alternative that has the following characteristics might fill a need:
>
> You might want to see what I did in fusion, which is a piece of Emma 
> (http://emma3d.org). It is much simpler than the other solutions out 
> there. For instance, to make a C++ object that is accessible to Lua 
> you go:
>
>     class MyClass : public Fusion::Object {
>         ...
>         DECLARE_CLASS(MyClass, Object);
>     }
>
> [...snip for brevity...]
> It is a nice little package which links to a dll of around 176K on 
> win32. It has no dependencies other than Lua and is designed for Lua 5.1.
>
> When I get the chance I will release this as a package and do better 
> docs. But please use or leverage it as you see fit...
Worth looking into for sure. I'm not super keen on using class 
inheritance (could get messy when MyClass inherits from other stuff and 
they too use Function::Object, perhaps you could comment on that), but 
lots of good ideas there, and maybe some code to re-use?

Oliver