Re: LuaJIT FFI file/directory iterator help needed

["Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <malkia@...>]

I've just wrote something last thursday. But I gave up, when I came to 
OSX and Linux.

The problem for me was "struct dirent" - it's defined very differently 
on various "unix" like platforms, and can't be exposed safely. Well one 
can do it, if he is very.

For Windows that was easier - for 64-bit might be just a bit trickier, 
and if UNICODE support is needed might complicate it a bit (but can it 
be done easy through lua).

I also want to use only FFI, and nothing else (it's for a different 
reason, I just don't want to deal with one more and one more compilation 
- having luajit binary/dll for each platform, and then having pulled 
certain other "C" library that I can use - whether I recompiled or 
someone else - it won't matter).

On 6/6/2011 6:42 AM, Attila wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Can somebody help me with LuaJIT FFI? I don't really understand it's
> mechanism, I used alien to iterate through a directory's files (I don't
> like os.execute with DIR/LS command, because it flashes the shell, and
> that's an ugly solution I think). This code worked well:
> http://pastebin.com/tJ0iFkyS
> If that possible to rewrite it with LuaJIT, but without any additional
> dll? I don't know C/C++, I am mainly Lua programmer, so please help :)
>
> Regards,
> Attila