Re: Lua API changes between 5.1 and 5.3 for interfacing with .Net

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:39 AM, Charles Heywood <vandor2012@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies for my bluntness,
>
> https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#8
> https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#8
>
> documents what should be all changes to the APIs, libraries, and language
> between versions.

Apologies unnecessary, I'm just casting about seeing if there were
other resources I might have missed. I shall move forward with the
resources above.

Thanks,
Russ

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:12 AM Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> TLDR;
>> Is there an easy way to get a handle on the C API changes between 5.1
>> and 5.3? I tried diffing the two lua.h files but wasn't sure if that's
>> the best course of action.
>>
>> Complete:
>> I am exploring interfacing C# and .Net and there is a wonderful
>> collection of different paths, each in varying states of maintenance.
>> While there seems to be some attempts to re-create Lua in C#, I am
>> instead interested in directly interfacing with unmodified PUC-Lua
>> code.
>>
>> >From what I see, there are two paths: NLua/KeraLua, and creating an
>> interface as per instructions here:
>>
>> https://ttuxen.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/embedding-lua-in-dotnet/
>>
>> Once again, Kera/Lua *sort of* violates my desire for using unmodified
>> sources as it can only be built from their repository. (A brief
>> inspection seems to indicate they are compiling it as C++ as they've
>> changed the extensions.). If anyone knows better, please advise.
>>
>> So, that leaves me with Thue Tuxen's engine. One path I shall take is
>> to compile 5.1 to test it, but I'm interested in knowing what sort of
>> API changes were made between 5.1 and 5.3. Which brings me to the
>> question posted at the top.
>>
>> I have further questions about the modifications to the Lua53.dll
>> build that are required in the instructions (will it still work with C
>> components?), but will save that for another night (unless someone
>> feels like reading ahead!).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Russ
>>
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