Re: Lua - C++ Bindings

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

KHMan wrote:
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/BindingCodeToLua
One that I've been using that isn't on that list is part of LuaPlus:

http://luaplus.org/tiki-index.php

The "LuaPlus Call Dispatcher" is a single header (no Boost or other 
external libraries) that uses templates to bind C++ functions to Lua. It 
also has support for binding Lua functions to C++, though I haven't used 
that yet. Not sure if it's appropriate to add LuaPlus to the wiki, 
though, since it obviously does a lot more than just C++ binding.

We use LuaPlusCD.h right now in the Playground casual game library, 
wrapped with a couple of macros to make it even easier:

https://developer.playfirst.com

We may be considering looking at other binding options; I'll dig through 
the list on lua-users when I get a chance and do some experiments to see 
which produces the tightest code, unless someone already knows the 
answer. Since our library is for downloadable (and ActiveX) games, size 
is a huge consideration--which is a big reason why we chose Lua to begin 
with, of course. And is also a big reason we don't use the entire 
LuaPlus distribution--it added another 150k to our footprint. The entire 
Playground library compresses down to about 500k bytes, so looking at 
the Qt bindings of multiple megabytes has me a bit worried--though I 
know Qt is huge in general. I'll see what I find out.

Thanks for the link,

--Tim