Re: modifying package's lib loading (was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.1.2-rc5 now available)

["Jim Whitehead II" <jnwhiteh@...>]

> We only want that for the standard Lua interpreter so that users do not
> have to rebuild it every time they want a new library. Libraries can be
> then distributed in binary form as a dynamic library and users do not
> even have to have or know how to operate a C compiler (much less create
> a dynamic library).
>
> And, yes, for the standard Lua interpreter we strongly recommend
> statically linking the core into it. (Unless you're in Windows, when you
> need the core to be a DLL if you want to load user DLLs.)
>
> > Can you do that with WoW or lightroom?

You cannot do any direct form of I/O in World of Warcraft's Lua
sandbox, everything is handled from the C side of things, which we
obviously have no access to.  I'd love to be able to load binary
modules, but I won't hold my breath =)