Re: ESP8266 (Where is Lua used?)

[Bogdan Marinescu <bogdan.marinescu@...>]

Hmmm. This makes me wonder if eLua shouold be ported to this thing. I don't know if it'd be necessarily better, but at least it'd be open source. I'm certainly tempted.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Paul Merrell <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Jerome Vuarand
<jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is not true. You can compile Lua for an embedded target without
> an operating system. All you need is a standard C library, which many
> if not all modern microcontroller toolchains provide. What eLua adds
> on top of Lua is some microcontroller-oriented libraries, and specific
> build configurations and patches so that Lua runs better on some
> specific platforms. I'm not trying to minimize the work involved in
> eLua, just fixing a mistake.
>
> So this project might run eLua, or it might simply compile the
> standard Lua in an appropriate way for the ESP8266 processor. It's
> hard to tell because the firmware on nodemcu's Github is actually a
> binary image, I can't find the source code (which by itself feels a
> little suspicious to me).

Thanks for the education!

Best regards,

Paul


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