Re: luac does what precisely?

["Tony Papadimitriou" <tonyp@...>]

luac only compiles a single file.  It does not follow dependencies.

If it helps, I have written a small Lua 5.3 script that unites all 
'require'ments into a single file, and then you can compile this to get a 
stand-alone Lua executable.
However, it will only work with pure Lua modules.  It will not work with 
binary modules (DLL, etc.)

You can get it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ls0aku48u2ybgud/one.luac?dl=0
You give as parameter the main Lua file, and redirect its output to the 
single file.  Example: lua one.luac main.lua > united.lua

(I haven't found any Lua source that fails to work with this.  However, if 
you notice problems, let me know.  Maybe I can fix it.)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Meer, Hans van der
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 11:51 AM
To: Lua mailing list
Subject: luac does what precisely?

A question about luac. Do I understand correctly that luac precompiles the 
given lua file only and does not include the modules called in by a require 
statement inside? More precisely, that it does not generate something 
functioning as a 'fully linked standalone binary'?
And if I am right in this, is it possible to generate such a 'standalone 
binary', allowing one to call one file with all necessary precompiled code 
inside?

Hans van der Meer