Re: calling lua functions from C which use libraries

[Jamie Webb <j@...>]

On Monday 14 June 2004 10:37, Tassilo von Parseval wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:01:30AM +0100 Jamie Webb wrote:
> > On Monday 14 June 2004 09:38, Tassilo von Parseval wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I am currently working on an Inline::Lua module for Perl and I need
> > > some help on triggering lua functions from C when those functions make
> > > use of lua's shipped library. I did a rather thorough scan through the
> > > mailing list archive, but apparently this issue hasn't yet been brought
> > > up.
> >
> > You just need to use luaopen_base(L) and friends after you've called
> > lua_open(). See section 5 of the manual.
>
> Actually, my code is already doing this. 

> In principle I do agree, though. It should be a matter as easy as adding
> one of the calls to luaopen_*.

You need to call all of them. luaopen_loadlib() will only provide you with 
loadlib support (i.e. the ability to load external shared libraries).

-- Jamie Webb