Re: Bundling several Lua modules in one file

["Luís Eduardo Jason Santos" <jasonsantos@...>]

Hi, 

We have been working a project called LAR [1] that is part of the Kepler Project. Recently, we have put some brain into this discussion and found no portable/comfortable way to load binary modules without extracting them.

LAR is a virtual file system for Lua using ZIP compression. It has been developed quite a long ago, and have never achieved beta status. The code in the CVS is functional, but could use some extra hands.

[1] http://luaforge.net/projects/lar/

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Andreas Krinke <andreas.krinke@gmx.de> wrote:

Ico Doornekamp schrieb:

I implemented something like this some time ago, quite trivially. Just
create a loader for your archive format (I used .tar.gz) and add it to the
package.loaders table.

Is it possible to load binary modules (*.so and *.dll) this way without extracting them to a location where the normal loader finds them?

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Luís Eduardo Jason Santos