Re: UTF-8 patterns in Lua 5.3

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-04-22 10:04 GMT+02:00 David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>:
>
> On 21/04/2014 16:18, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>>>
>>> there is one bit of utf8 functionality I want in liblua.so
>>
>> Do you mean liblua.a?
>>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html#AEN49
>

I know. However, at least on Linux, there is no liblua.so.

$ locate liblua.so
$

Instead, liblua.a is statically linked with the host program (e.g. `lua`)
and your modules get the API functions from there. If you write your
own host, you need to include `liblua.a` with your .o files when linking.