Re: UTF-8 patterns in Lua 5.3

[David Demelier <demelier.david@...>]

On 22/04/2014 10:46, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 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.
Usually good distributions provides always two versions of libraries, 
shared and static.

$ pkg info -l lua52-5.2.3_2 | grep liblua
    /usr/local/lib/liblua-5.2.a
    /usr/local/lib/liblua-5.2.so