Re: Luasocket sample / static linking

[Andreas Krinke <andreas.krinke@...>]

On Jun 6, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Eric Tetz wrote:
> (1) I'm trying to statically link Luasocket into an app, and I'm
> completely confounded by the module system. Does anyone know of an
> open source project that statically links Luasocket to a Lua 5.1.x
> that I could look at?

Scrupp [1] statically links LuaSocket. It's an application that embeds 
Lua, so it isn't a clean Lua interpreter.

> (2) Assuming I can get past step 1, I'd like to be able to validate.
> There doesn't appear to be any http tests in the Luasocket package,
> and as far as I can tell the only sample app that use http (cddb)
> doesn't work. When I run it (e.g. lua5.1.exe cddb.lua classical
> 270b8617) I get:
>
> lua5.1.exe: cddb.lua:35: attempt to call field 'get' (a nil value)
> stack traceback:
>          cddb.lua:35: in main chunk

This example comes with Scrupp. Line 35 reads:

local body, code, headers = http.request(url)

This change should make it work.

Regards,
Andreas

[1] http://scrupp.sourceforge.net