Re: loading Lua DLLs from an archive file?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> If the DLL you want to package are Lua binary modules, you can also
> statically link them in your executable, and with the help of the
> preload searcher it will be transparent to your application and other
> Lua modules (ie. you will still load them through require).

Just for the record: this works transparently if luaopen_xxx in your C module
calls luaL_register with a non-null name, because luaL_register then sets
the corresponding field in package.loaded.