Re: multiple Lua versions in one host

[Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@...>]

Viacheslav Usov wrote on 2/18/2017 7:49 AM:

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Windows it's trivial

I assume you meant shared Lua.

Any ideas about statically linked Lua?

I did not understand what you meant by "custom VM" and how that could be helpful.

Any way I think about this, shared or static, it seems inevitable that I would need to have some wrappers on top of or at least version-decorated Lua API types and functions. And macros, because they are heavily used. That seems rather messy to maintain even for one Lua version, and for multiple it can become a problem in itself. Any ideas here?

I statically linked 2 versions of Lua once in the same executable. It involved compiling one version of Lua as C++ and wrapping a namespace around each file for minimal change.

-Josh