Re: require dll

[Michael Bauroth <Michael.Bauroth@...>]

If you look into loadlib.c you will find out, that the prefix of your 
method must be named luaopen_, followed be the name of your require 
statement, e.g. _IupRobot. So the method should be called 
luaopen__IupRobot (I think :).

Regards
Micha

Wim Langers schrieb:
> I wrote a C extension to Lua and can load it with 'package.loadlib'.
> I somehow thought that I could load it with require (and not hardcode 
> paths). Require finds my dll but then complains that it can't find 'The 
> specified procedure' ?
> Looked all over the place to find out what's going on, but no success.
> I also read something about naming conventions : I named the dll 
> '_IupRobot.dll' with a 'luaopen__IupRobotLib' (two underscores) and the 
> corresponding lua code 'IupRobot.lua'. Also tried with 
> 'luaopen_IupRobotLib' (one underscore) because I read something about 
> automatically removing the extra underscore.
>
> So the question is : is there a simple way to make this work ?
> or alternatively : do I write my own package loader (a la 
> 'BinaryModulesLoader' from the wiki)
>
> Wim
>
> ps.: except if not even the word 'lua' is to be found somewhere in the 
> mailing list archive, I suppose the search function doesn't work anymore