Re: Compiling pure Lua project into singe file

[Daniel Quintela <dq@...>]

Mike Crowe escribió:

> Hi folks,
>
> This is probably very easy, but I can't seem to see how to do it.  I 
> have a complete project of ~12 .lua files that I want to distribute.  
> Windows platform.  Assume destination has lua.exe and luac.exe
>
> I thought the answer was to:
>    luac -o myfile.luac file1.lua file2.lua file3.lua .... file12.lua
>
> That creates "myfile.luac" that appears to be all the files together.
>
> However, if I copy this file to a new directory, and execute:
>    lua myfile.luac
>
> I get an error like:
> lua: cannot read compat.lua: No such file or directory
> stack traceback:
>        [C]: in function `dofile'
>        all.lua:9: in main chunk
>        (luac): in main chunk
>        [C]: ?
>
> (compat.lua is one of the files in my project).
>
> What am I missing here?
> TIA
> Mike  

Hi Mike:

Other way to pack several scripts:

1) Download ckurmi.exe from:     
http://www.soongsoft.com/software/ckurmi.exe
2) Name the main script (the first to be called) "kurmi.lua" (even if it 
is compiled).
3) Compile each script separately.
4) Put all the compiled scripts inside a standard Zip file.
5) Create the exe+lua unit as:
     copy ckurmi.exe/B + TheScripts.zip/B TheDist.exe/B
6) Now you can test it running TheDist.exe

Notes:
1) Use kurmi.dofile instead of dofile (or do:  dofile = kurmi.dofile 
before the first call).
2) You can use kurmi.loadfile (loadfile clone).  Don't forget to put the 
.dll inside the .zip

Regards,
DQ