Re: Debug embedded Lua

[Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Rapin
Date: 2/14/2012 10:13 AM
>   - Lua 5.2 support would be a plus
>
> The remote debugger integrated in LuaPlus [2] seems to be my best bet
> up to now, but I still couldn't make it work.
I have pushed my changes [1] that make Tilde work (partially) under Lua 
5.2; the updates can be found in the add-tilde-support branch.  I am 
uncertain how to convert certain lua_getfenv() and lua_setfenv() calls.  
Those are the primary problem spots right now, and the code will assert 
when it reaches them.

A new -debug command-line option has been added to lua.exe.  Use this to 
make the Lua executable wait for a Tilde connection.

A JamPlus-capable Jamfile.jam is at src/Jamfile.jam.  If you have 
JamPlus, you can build a Tilde-capable Lua 5.2 by just calling 'jam' at 
the command-line.  The Tilde source code is at src/tilde.  src/lua.c was 
copied to src/lua.cpp, and some Tilde updates were added.

Some time soon, I'll merge the Lua 5.2 Tilde with the Lua 5.1 code.

Let me know if you have questions.

-Josh

[1] https://github.com/jjensen/lua52/tree/add-tilde-support