Re: How to load more than a file from C

[Igor Trevisan <igt1972@...>]

Hi Steve,

 

thanks for your answer.

On 30 April 2014 09:14, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Igor Trevisan <igt1972@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, this is a common need and there are several ways to solve it.

You can encode the Lua file as a C string and load that; this string
can then be compiled as part of your program.  (The Lua compiler is so
fast that generally compiling-as-bytecode is only needed for the most
performance-sensitive applications and/or embedded)

(Writing a Lua file as a C string is a straightforward exercise in Lua)

The Lua file can be attached to your executable, say as a resource (if
Windows) or simply glued to the end of the executable (which is how
srlua works)

If there are multiple files, they can be collected together as a code
archive (see Squish, soar, and others)

 

The problem is that I don't want to collect the lua files but

keep them detached.

I added an example answering to Thomas Jericke (later in the thread)

and I hope it can claearify things a bit...

I.

 

 
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