Re: Dev environment for Lua Implementation

[Karl Park <karl.park@...>]

Hi Denis,

Thank you for your reply. I will check out geany.

Maybe I am spoiled by the conveniences offerred by IDEs like xcode, visual studio etc.

I work on a quite big c++(thus xcode) project that embeds Lua and lua scripts.

(we use in-house developed lua debugger to debug lua code)

In this xcode project, if I wanted I can focus on the lua itself.

But as I poke in the lua itself, with simple lua scripts, running within gdb on terminal, 

and having to visit some .c, .h files with emacs, moving up and down the frames, examining the variables etc, I just got to miss the convenience some IDE offerred.

And my thought was that, since there are authors of Lua, they must be doing more efficiently than I was doing, and I hoped I could learn and see how efficiently they were debugging/inspecting lua in itself.

As I write this, what I think I could do is, to create a simple c/c++ (xcode) project that embeds some lua script in it, and start digging on Lua.

I will see how far I can go on this approach as well.

Regards,

-Karl

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:46 AM, spir <denis.spir@gmail.com> wrote:

On 04/12/2012 01:45, Karl Park wrote:

Hi,

I am new to this list, so my apologies if the same question was asked.
(couldn't find a way to do some search on archived messages)

I have been trying to learn about the lua itself (the implementation of the
language), and I quickly found out that I am not productive on terminal
using gdb and emacs.

So, I was wondering how to set up development environment/tools etc (I am
on Mac OS X) as you work on the language itself.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
-Karl

If you want a heavy IDE with complex features, probably some thing like Eclipse would do the job. For a lighter but efficient programming editor, i'd recommand geany (it's only drawback if language-specific settings are done via edition non-travially organised config files). I have not checked for OSX, but since it's cross-platforms and works on Linux, probably there is no issue. For your usage, it has builtin support of Lua & C, indeed.

Denis