Re: Lua-Noob question on using Lua from C++

Subject: Re: Lua-Noob question on using Lua from C++
From: &quot;RJP Computing&quot; &lt;rjpcomputing@ ... &gt;
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:18:39 -0500

Hi there !

I am rather new to Lua and currently trying to integrate Lua into our C++ applications.

Welcome.

Although there are good documentation resources around, I would like to ask two beginner-questions:

- what is the best way to use Lua from C++ (Wrappers, exception-handling, etc)?

I would recommend Luaxx header only C++ wrapper around the Lua C API, if you are writing them yourself. This will allow you to use try/catch around your code to catch the 'exit()' function for you. Also as a tip you should not throw from you modules. It just doesn't work well and makes it very hard to code right.'

Here is a copy that I updated from the original creator of Luaxx[1] that has much more bound and covers many of the standard containers (e.g. vector, map, pair). [2]

Now if you want a decent binding library I suggest toLua++[3][4] I have had good success using it.

- and how may I intercept "exit"-statements in Lua-Script in C++ to prevent my whole application from closing?

See above.