Re: Problems with Lua in Vim

[Rob Hoelz <rob@...>]

On 11/22/13 11:06 AM, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> Hi all,
> I compiled Vim with Lua support and am quite happy now that I can
> write Vim procedures in my favourite language. Most things work, but
> there is one problem I couldn't solve. Whenever I try to require a
> module (after setting package.path and package.cpath right), I get an
> error message like this:
>
>  error loading module 'posix_c' from file '/usr/lib/lua/5.2/posix_c.so':
>  /usr/lib/lua/5.2/posix_c.so: undefined symbol: lua_gettop
>
> It seems that Lua has found the required module, but the module can't
> access liblua.a. No idea why. Posix is just an example, the same
> happens with other modules as well.
>
> Any ideas what could be the reason and how to get around this?
>
> - Bernd
>
How are you "setting package.path and package.cpath right"?  Chances are
that you built Vim against Lua 5.1, and you're asking it to load 5.2
modules, which it gets upset about.

-Rob