Re: compile a function

[Julien Hamaide <julien.hamaide@...>]

Can you send a sample of sourcecode file?

Remo Dentato wrote:
> Hi there!
>  I'm trying to compile and save a function from within lua. This is my
> current approach (assume src is a string containing the source code and
> file is a file opened with "wb"):
> 
> 
>    fun, err = loadstring(src)
>    ...
>    file:write(string.dump(fun))
> 
>   When I look into the generetade file, though, I found the entire
> source code (the src string) preceded by the binary header and followed
> by other Lua VM code.
> 
>   I guess this mean that next time I reload the function the source code
> will be compiled and loaded.
> 
>   I would have liked to have an all binary file as the ones created by
> luac. I understand luac uses the C API to achieve that but I've not be
> able to understand how to do the same within a Lua script!
> 
>   Any insight would be appreciated!
> 
>   Remo
> 
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Julien Hamaide
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