Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2, cross-platform debugging, and LuaJIT live coding support in MobDebug and ZeroBrane Studio

[Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <devotion97@...>]

hi.
is the stack window operational?
i get the following stack window message:

"Error: src/lbase/mobdebug.lua:166: Attempt to perform operation on an
invalid operand"

system: client: windows, lua 5.2, server: windows with remote debugging

greets,
-- Fred



On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Paul K <paulclinger@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have committed several changes to ZeroBrane Studio and MobDebug that
> may be of interest:
>
> 1. MobDebug and ZBS now support Lua 5.2 debugging. ZBS is still
> packaged with Lua 5.1.5, but you can debug Lua 5.2 applications from
> it if you configure "path.lua" to point to your Lua 5.2 executable
> (you will also need luasocket compiled for Lua 5.2)
> 2. MobDebug and ZBS now support code reloading, coroutine debugging,
> and live-coding under LuaJIT. For the reloading and live coding you'd
> need to use some recent version of LuaJIT as this functionality
> requires this commit
> (http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git/commit/e422ae2d9d184592066c1252ba0b391c4a1830ba)
> to be included. This means that if you configure "path.lua" to point
> to your LuaJIT executable, you can use regular commands from the IDE
> to debug your scripts.
> 3. MobDebug has been updated to work with the most recent luasocket
> that has Lua 5.2 support (unstable branch
> https://github.com/diegonehab/luasocket/tree/unstable); tested on
> Windows with Lua 5.2.
> 4. MobDebug and ZBS now support cross-platform remote debugging; you
> can have your app and the IDE running on two different filesystems.
> This allows to debug a Lua app running on Raspberry-pi from ZBS
> running on a Windows or an OSX computer. This doesn't require any
> configuration as the IDE will attempt to map the remote path to the
> project folder you are using in ZBS (you will see a message when the
> mapping is successful); you just need to have your Lua project files
> present in both locations.
>
> You can get both from GitHub: ZBS
> https://github.com/pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio (this includes MobDebug
> too) or MobDebug https://github.com/pkulchenko/MobDebug. Please email
> me or open a ticket on github if you notice any issues. Thank you!
>
> Paul.
> - ZeroBrane Studio - slick Lua IDE and debugger for Windows, OSX, and
> Linux - http://studio.zerobrane.com/
>