Re: Dumping bytecode in Lua?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Is it possible in pure Lua to compile Lua source code to bytecode and dump the resulting binary bytecode to file?

We used to distribute this file luac.lua:

-- bare-bones luac in Lua
-- usage: lua luac.lua file.lua

assert(arg[1]~=nil and arg[2]==nil,"usage: lua luac.lua file.lua")
f=assert(io.open("luac.out","wb"))
assert(f:write(string.dump(assert(loadfile(arg[1])))))
assert(f:close())