Re: ctypes- equivalent in Lua?

[Rob Hoelz <rob@...>]

Check out Alien and C/Invoke.

On May 10, 2009, at 15:50, bb <bb-543437@versanet.de> wrote:

> There is some ingenious library available for Python called ctype,  
> or say it is provided with the language as a standard and it only  
> needs to be imported.  I have checked the Lua documentation and the  
> Lua mailing list to find something equivalent powerful - no success.
>
> Well, there is the exchange possible via stack but I think that is  
> not the philosopher's stone. I found the alien extension (http://alien.luaforge.net/ 
> ) as well, but I found nothing comparable to ctypes. ctypes for  
> instance allows to create C datatypes from within Python by c-char,  
> c_byte, c_int and so on. In my first check of the docs I could not  
> find any mechanism for passing parameters by reference, say  
> pointers. May be I did not find the essentials.
>
> Is there any library I have not jet found for such powerful  
> programming techniqes in Lua? Thanks for providing any information.
>
> Best regards
>
> BB