Re: Lua Without a FileSystem?

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 10.04.2018 um 06:15 schröbte Russell Haley:
> Hi,

Hi!

> I've finally managed to get the pieces together to run Lua in the RTEMS
> operating system. A big shout out to whoever lparam is:
>
> https://github.com/lparam/rtems-liblua
>
> Anyway, now that I can load a hello world string and iterate a table, I was
> wondering about actually doing something with Lua. For my first attempt I
> would like to load penlight. I'm using the sparc erc32 (default) build with
> their emulator and it doesn't have a filesystem. errr... Help?
>
> To be sure, I have no idea what I'm even looking for. I've asked a similar
> question on the RTEMS mailing list and there is some information about
> loading a tar based FS, as well as reading ELF binaries (?Really?). I'll be
> doing some digging on those items, but any advice would be grand.

I'd use one of the various amalgamation scripts, put the resulting 
single big script into a char array, and load it from there. But a 
searcher that loads from a tar would be cool (and probably also useful 
for others) as well.

> Cheers,
>
> Russ

Philipp