Re: Lua running on PalmOS!

["Terence Martin" <odat@...>]

Hey this sounds awesome. I just got myself a Prism a couple of days ago and
have been meaning to try something like this (course, I got Sudden Strike at
the same time, so free time seems a bit limited ;).

Do you have what you've done so far available for download anywhere? I'd
love to give it a try.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lenny Palozzi" <lenny.palozzi@home.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 10:46 PM
Subject: Lua running on PalmOS!


> I hacked a version of Lua to run on PalmOS.
>
> In short
> * used latest gcc tools
> * compiled with PalmOS v2 SDK
> * running on PalmOS 3.1 (that's all I have), should run on PalmOS 2!
> * followed LTN 2 for a minimal version
> * rewrote Lua's generic memory allocator
>   - used memory handles so memory is not allocated in the limited dynamic
heap
>   - memory allocation is the most difficult issue of this port. Different
>     versions of PalmOS have different limitations.
>   - different strategies could be used to support each version
> * commented a few calls to unsupported functions (fgetc, etc...)
> * test app(very limited) and Lua compiled as single executable.
> ~33K prc.
> * am able to register a C function and call it from lua, manipulate global
> variables (and opening and closing of Lua states of course)
>
> Not sure where I will go with this, a stable port maybe? Comments?
>
> Thanks,
> -Lenny.