Re: How to do a Lua<->C hello world in Lua 5.1?

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Wednesday 19 January 2011 01:53:20 Sean Conner wrote:
 
>   Now, if you want to see how a project will embed Lua and don't mind a
> rather sizable example (but it's still single C file), you can check out:
> 
> 	http://www.conman.org/software/syslogintr/
> 
>   It's a non-trivial example of embedding Lua in a C application.  If you
>  do want to look at it, most of the Lua stuff is in the functions main(),
>  process_msg(), load_script(), syslogintr_alarm(),
>  syslogintr_ud__toprint(), syslogintr_host(), syslogintr_lsock(),
>  syslogintr_relay(),
> call_optional_luaf() and add_lua_path().  Think of this as a demo of
> embedding Lua, and extending Lua, in a Unix daemon (in this case, syslog).
> 
>   It is extensively commented and it may be a bit more than you want to
>  look through for a simple example, but it is self-contained (and a decent
>  example of a Unix daemon as well).

Thanks Sean,

I'll work on that as soon as the entirety of Drake's simple example is 
entirely clear to me. I'm looking forward to it.

SteveT

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