Re: Problem with Lua and Scite (undefined symbol: lua_insert)

[mitchell <mforal.news@...>]

Hi,

> I'm having major problems getting Scite-st
> (http://caladbolg.net/scite_st.php) working. I know this is Lua list,
> but I'm not sure whether the problem is with Scite or with Lua (and
> the Scite mailing list is not working at the moment). Lua version is
> 5.1.1 (from Kubuntu repositories) and Scite-st is the latest from svn.
> Scite requires (among others) LPeg-library
> (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg.html) which I had to compile
> myself because I have amd64 and the one from Scite's webpages is
> 32bit. After compiling I copied the resulting lpeg.so to Scite's
> lexers/ -directory, but when I try to run Scite, it gives me an error:
>
> Lua Error: error loading module 'lpeg' from file
> '/home/olli/Programs/scite-st/share/scite-st/lexers/lpeg.so':
>        /home/olli/Programs/scite-st/share/scite-st/lexers/lpeg.so:
> undefined symbol: lua_insert.

Is your system Lua amd64? Is scite-st compiled for amd64? I don't know 
for certain, but I should think 32 bit apps linking to 64 bit 
apps/libraries may cause some problems.

-Mitchell;

> I've googled, searched the mailing list and also a friendly person at
> #lua.org tried to help but without success. Sorry if this information
> wasn't enough, but this is all very new to me so I don't know what's
> important and what is not.
>
> - Olli