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thanks, that was exactly what i wanted. > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:30:01 +0100 > From: jerome.vuarand@gmail.com > To: lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br > Subject: Re: > > 2008/11/25 pan shizhu <pan.shizhu@gmail.com>: > > This is documented here: http://www.lua.org/pil/8.2.html > > The online PiL is outdated with respect to binary modules. > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Raúl Huertas <rax2003_7@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm starting with lua and i'm very excited learning the C API. Now I know > >> how to load my functions and use them in a lua program, but... > >> > >> I0ve just installed wxWidget and it creates a .so called wx.so. SO when in > >> lua, the standalone interpreter, finds 'require("wx")' laods that library > >> automatically. How this can be done? is there any special function to create > >> in that shared library? a lua_openlib(). How the module get loaded > >> automatically? > > The different module searchers that are used by the 'require' function > are described in the online manual [1] > > Basically all you need is to define the name of your module along with > its package name, for example foo.bar where foo is the package and bar > is the module name. You then have to create a shared library which > exports a symbol named luaopen_foo_bar (if foo contains additionnal > dots, replace them with underscores). This symbol must be a > lua_CFunction [2]. The shared library should be named with a name > corresponding with one of the entries of package.cpath, for example > foo/bar.so. > > > [1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-package.loaders > [2] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#lua_CFunction Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger Get it now! |