srlua and other methods

Subject: srlua and other methods
From: Remo Dentato &lt;rdentato@ ... &gt;
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 06:45:06 +0000

Hi!
I was looking for a way to package my C/lua application in a single executable and the method offered by srlua (thanks Luiz!) is appealing to me because I could offer to advanced users the ability of modifying the lua parts and generate a new executable without requiring a C compiler.

It seems however that srlua deals with a single lua file while I have some modules and lua files that use "require()" to load them.

I've seen the version from Frank Bechmann that allows multiple files to be stored in a zip file (srluaz) but my compiler chokes on unzip.h (part of zlib?) and I would avoid introducing another dependency.

I could change the original srlua to make it handle multiple lua files but before doing that I would ask:
   1) Has anyone an alternative method to suggest?
   2) Has anyone already modified srlua
   3) I will have to change how "require()" behaves, so that it search in the exe files before looking elsewhere, is using "package.loaders" the best method to do that?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Remo.D