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- Subject: Re: modules containing both C and Lua parts
- From: Diego Nehab <diego@...>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:06:03 -0500 (EST)
Hi,
These days I frequently find myself wanting to create a Lua module
that is part C code and part Lua code. The 'module' and 'require'
functions seem to be set up to support one or the other, but not
both in combination.
Here is what I do with LuaSocket. I put the C functionality
in socket/core.so. The Lua functionality is put in
socket.lua. When the user runs require"socket", the Lua file
is invoked. This, in turn, runs require"socket.core", which
loads the C functionality. After that, the Lua module runs
module"socket". The interesting part is in the C module. It
exports luaopen_socket_core, but calls
luaL_openlib(L, "socket", funcs, 0)
instead of using "socket.core". This means the the functions
get exported to the same namespace as the Lua module. It
works very well for my purposes.
Regards,
Diego.