Re: Basic cross platform module for lua ?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Apr 30, 2006, at 05:40, Mildred wrote:

> I think actually it's easy to write cross platform in python (for
> example) since there are the cross platform batteries included. But in
> lua, because I have to create them myself, and because I only have
> linux, my programms can't be that easily ported to others platforms.
> I'm searching for those batteries for Lua.

Hmmm... once you internalize the fact that Lua is the quintessential 
BYO [1] environment, life gets much smoother 8^)

For what it's worth, here is what I use for my own Lua web application 
server:

The Basics

Kepler's LuaFileSystem
http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/

Diego Nehab's LuaSocket
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~diego/professional/luasocket/

One you have file and network access, the rest is gravy, but still:

Klaus Ripke's slncrypto (sha1, blowfish)
http://luaforge.net/projects/sln/

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo's lgdbm, lmd5, lrandom, luuid
http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/

Tiago Dionizio's lgzip
http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~tngd/lua/

Cheers

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYO