Re: Is there an #include equivalent in Lua (I do not mean require)

[<tonyp@...>]

Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

What I meant by executable was a Lua executable (which maintains the 
advantage of portability to any system Lua can run), not something like an 
EXE file.

I need to give someone a compiled Lua program that s/he can run using just 
the Lua interpreter but
a. without being able to look at the source, and
b. given as a single file which contains the complete application, rather 
than a tree structure of library files.

Thank you all for your suggestions, I will try them ASAP.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Steven Degutis
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 7:20 PM
To: Lua mailing list
Subject: Re: Is there an #include equivalent in Lua (I do not mean require)

Quoth Tony Papadimitriou:

> How can one #include a bunch of files so that when compiled, a single
> self-contained executable is produced.

Lua files are not self-contained executables. And there is no way to
produce one without great hackery (that I know of). So, even if you do
concatenate all Lua files into a single source file, if must still be
executed by a Lua interpreter on the target user's machine.

-Steven