Re: How to include static files into luarock?

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 09.12.2016 um 08:42 schröbte p. shkadzko:
> Hi All,

Hi!


> I have a small script that reads and parses 2 text files. I wanted to
> create a luarock which packs both the script and static resources to be
> parsed. How should I organize my "build" section in rockspec file?
>
> Currently I have the following:
>
>  build = {
>    type = "builtin",
>    modules = {
>        myscript = "src/lua-myscript.lua"
>    },
>    copy_directories = {"data"}
> }
>
> And the package dir sctructure:
>
> lua-myscript-1.0/
>     scr/
>         lua-myascript.lua
>     data/
>         data1.txt
>         data2.txt
>
>
> I thought that "copy_directories" will do the work, but it didn't. The
> module complains that it can't find the resources. Is there a predefined
> path where luarocks installs all the "copy_directories" data? How should I
> do it correctly?

The files will end up inside the rocks tree somewhere like 
`/usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.3/lua-myscript-1.0-1/data`. There is 
the [datafile][1] module which can figure out the details for you.

For the build section I'd use something like

    build = {
      type = "none",
      install = {
        bin = {
          myscript = "src/myscript.lua",
        }
      },
      copy_directories = { "data" }
    }

> Best,
> Pavel

HTH,
Philipp


  [1]: https://github.com/hishamhm/datafile/