Tag: LUA
First experiences with LUA 5.1 (0.0.2)
by parc on Jul.11, 2008, under Smalltalk
LUA is a programming language and its main usage is to extend other languages for scripting purposes in main applications. The same idea as with Rexx and OS/2 (15 years ago) or OORexx (now). For Rexx there is a wrapper available from this site.
Two main resources (as books) are available for learning LUA:
- Lua Reference Manul 5.1
- Programmieren mit Lua (Programming in Lua) 2nd ed.
- www.lua.org
The LUA interpreter is locatred within two dll’s and these are based on the c runtime library of VS2005. Therefore the package contains this runtime-stuff also. But still then when calling from VASmalltalk (abt.exe) one gets an error, that the c-runtime library has been called NOT in a correct way.
After searching around I found out, that one has to put the manifest into the executable, which calls the LUA dll’s and then it is working. Therefore also a patched abt.exe has been included in this archive.
If you want to patch it by yourself you can do this by executing based on your own abt.exe:
mt /manifest Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest /outputresource:abt.exe;#1
The wrapper only wraps some API calls just to execute the Listing 24.1 from the book mentioned above testing the C API. More may follow
