Re: reviving the ao luarock

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 3 August 2017 at 11:51, Peter Billam <pjb@pjb.com.au> wrote:
> Greeitngs.  I hope this is the appropriate forum...
> Judging from http://thelinx.github.io/lao/
> ao is just exactly what I need :-)
> so I tried  luarocks install ao  and got
>  ao> lua ao_example.lua
>  lua: error loading module 'ao' from file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/ao.so':
>     /usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/ao.so: undefined symbol: luaL_register
>
> so presumably it needs something like what I normally use:
>  #if LUA_VERSION_NUM >= 502
>     luaL_setfuncs(L, prv, 0);    /* 5.2 */
>     return 0;
>  #else
>     luaL_register(L, NULL, prv); /* 5.1 */
>     return 0;
>  #endif
>
> so I did
>  git clone https://github.com/thelinx/lao
> and in src/lao.c I tried to replace the
>  luaL_register(L, "ao", ao);
> line, but couldn't get it compiled because the way lao.c returns the
> module is different ... it's probably elementary ...
>
> It's a shame that such a neat little module isn't maintained any more.
> I could probably coerce it into my usual way of doing things,
> but I'm a bit old to take on more modules. And I'm not sure
> that anyone's listening for pull requests on thelinx/lao
>
> Suggestions gratefully received...

Looks like luaL_register should be replaced here with luaL_newlib
Examples should then be rewritten to do: local ao = require "ao"