Integrating LUA into C++

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Daaa 0 Newbie Poster

13 Years Ago

I have looked around and it seems that there are no comprehensive tutorials on integrating LUA into a C++ application. What exact files must i have/include/link etc? Most tutorials don't describe this in any detail and i am left wondering what i need where.

c++ scripting

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gerard4143 371 Nearly a Posting Maven · Answer 1 · 2010-10-08T19:58:10+00:00

Jeez I tried googling LUA and C++ and found this

http://csl.sublevel3.org/lua/

Daaa 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 2 · 2010-10-09T06:22:42+00:00

Jeez, i tried that. The result is many undefined functions even when all of the headers are included and all of the libraries are linked.

Daaa 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 3 · 2010-10-09T06:24:44+00:00

i get luaopen_loadlib is undefined even with all of the files included and linked

Daaa 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 4 · 2010-10-09T06:30:21+00:00

hmm, after changing luaopen_loadlib to luaL_openlibs, the syntax error is gone but now the program just exits without doing anything.

Daaa 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 5 · 2010-10-09T06:35:09+00:00

Ok, i have managed to get it working for now. With the new version of LUA, different header files needed to be included and many of the old functions were changed.
luaL_openlibs just needs to be called in place of all of the other lib open functions and lua.hpp should be included instead of the three C header files.