Re: First lua program from cpp

[Eric Bohlman <ericbohlman@...>]

Lloyd wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am a lua newbie. This is my first program to print "Hello world" 
> using C API. It gives me runtime error!. Where is the problem?

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> int main()
> {
>     void *ud=NULL;
>
>     lua_State* L=lua_newstate(my_lua_alloc,ud);
>     if(L==NULL)
>     {
>         cout<<"Memory allocation error"<<endl;
>         return 0;
>     }

You need to initialize the Lua libraries here; otherwise, for example, 
the print() function won't be available.


      luaL_openlibs(ud);

>     int r=lua_load(L,my_lua_reader,ud,"Test Chunk");

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