Re: Suggestion for Lua 5.3.0 -- require search paths

[<tonyp@...>]

Many thanks for the tip.  But, it seems to me, this should be the default behavior.

 

From: Coroutines

Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 11:20 PM

To: Lua mailing list

Subject: Re: Suggestion for Lua 5.3.0 -- require search paths

 

If you want to add a new search directory for require you would do so for .lua files with package.path, with package.cpath for .so or .dll files (shared libraries that export a luaopen_*() function).

 

I frequently do this in a project if I'm requiring in a .lua from the same directory:

 

package.path = './.lua;' .. package.path

 

require 'local_file'

 

Look at package.path, it search those directories for the file you're require'ing in from left-to-right -- all the directories are between ; (; is the separator)

 

Remember: package.path for .lua -- package.cpath for .so/.dll