Re: Bundling several Lua modules in one file

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

It is possible, but very difficult and highly unadvisable. 
Huge limitations on windows memory management nowadays. 

IMHO, extract-to-temp-and-load-from

-there is the way to go.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jérôme Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:

2008/6/3 Andreas Krinke <andreas.krinke@gmx.de>:

> 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?

AFAIK it is not possible to have Windows load a dll from memory. It is
of course possible to do the loading and dynamic linking manually, but
that's not an easy task. I don't know the situation for shared objects
on Linux or other operating systems.

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Luís Eduardo Jason Santos