Lua Libraries

[Einlander]

I was wondering, is it possible to load binaries created for lua such as Luasocket or Lua-Enet from within a lua project? I see in many of the examples that you can "require" another lua script in in code, but does the same apply for lua compatible binaries?

 

I ask because as I prototype my project i need to know whether I can use these networking libraries in my scripts to make network synchronization as simple as possible. Ie: When an entity is acted upon or fires an event, it self updates its network presence.

[Rick]

I don't know about those. I'm using RakNet, but I made bindings to the RakPeer and BitStream and expose those to Lua and I have that working. In the past I use LoadLibrary() from lua I think to load a DLL. It seems LE does have it's own require() functions so not sure if it works. Have you tried it and had issues with it?

 

 

This to note: if you plan on doing any mobile this may not work as I don't think you can load DLL type things on iOS and possibly android. This is my concern, and so that's why I've created the bindings in the LE exe itself so it's part of the main program.

[Rick]

Looking into Lua-ENet and it looks like on github they have the C source. You should be able to plug that into the LE exe project, include Lua 5.1.4 in that project as well and then it would all compile together and you wouldn't need require() then.

[Josh]

I am curious how this works as well.