Re: Calling into Lua from Erlang

["Andreas Stenius" <andreas.stenius@...>]

Hi Robert,

I've been thinking about the marriage of Erlang<->Lua for a while, but 
haven't yet come up with the need for it... Still learning Erlang though (by 
implementing a xmpp server ;c).

I did make a binding from Pike to Lua a few years ago (never released, but I 
should have the code somewhere should anyone be interested).

If nothing else, I'd be interested in helping out with the effort.

Best regards,
Andreas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Raschke" <rtrlists@googlemail.com>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:09 PM
Subject: Calling into Lua from Erlang


> Hi,
>
> I will need to call Lua scripts from within Erlang soon. I was
> wondering if anyone has already looked into a slightly closer binding
> than calling an external program to run the Lua script and marshalling
> via stdin/out?
>
> I am currently undecided whether to make the Lua API available to be
> invoked from Erlang (via a linked-in driver) or if it might be more
> useful to write a Lua library that allows a Lua script to function as
> an Erlang node (similar to the Erlang Jinterface lib for Java).
>
> I would gratefully receive opinions and wisdom on this kind of stuff?
>
> Thanks,
> Robby