Re: Lua on XNA

[Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg@...>]

btw, xna runs managed code on the xbox360 with the clr, and is as such 
language agnostic, and using c for that is just as silly as writing c 
for the lua-vm to interpret.. Even the idea of it is a little icky to 
me.. :)

steve donovan wrote:
> I know that the LuaInterface people have moved to a completely managed
> version of Lua, but this of course uses the C compiler.  Would not
> this code be portable? Otherwise, I'm not entirely sure what the point
> of managed code is ;)
>
> steve d.
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk> wrote:
>   
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:45:42 +0200
> > "Julien Hamaide" <julien.hamaide@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > The problem is XNA does not provide C++ compiler, only C# compiler for
> > > Xbox360.
> > >       
> > That's... a shame.  One assumes it doesn't provide a C compiler,
> > either?  What on earth was their justification for this?
> >
> >     
> > > So I think the question must be then be : Is there any stable C#
> > > implementation of lua runtime
> > >       
> > Not to my knowledge.  I know there was some work writing a compiler to
> > target the .Net VM, but I don't think it was especially "finished" and
> > I doubt it would provide as nice an API as the C implementation does
> > for extending applications.
> >
> > B.
> >
> >     
>
>