Re: Working with Lua 5.1 'require' for fake/virtual/non-standard files

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> So I was wondering if somebody can explain to me how I can work with
> the new 5.1 system to load my zipped/archived scripts, in a way that
> doesn't require me to modify stock Lua or modify all my scripts. (I
> prefer my changes to be in the C part of my program).

The canonic way to do this is to setup a new loader. If you
take a look at the code in compat-5.1.lua, which is easier
to read than loadlib.c, it should be easy to figure out what
to do.

Regards,
Diego.