Re: NEWBIE Question: LUA wait() function?

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

running on windows can complicate the matter because
of the multiple MSVCRT issue, unlike on *nix.

--- Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> wrote:

> "Rolf" <rb@san.rr.com> writes:
> > 2. I don't think that I can add any libraries
> because LUA is somehow
> > built-in into the EccoExt executable (LUA is not
> separately installed).
> 
> Lua in general supports dynamic loading of C code,
> so you may be able to
> load an external library, even if you're using a
> pre-compiled embedded
> Lua.
> 
> The usual way to do that is something like:
> 
>    local mylib = require "mylib"
> 
> which, if it can't find an appropriate lua library
> (mylib.lua or so),
> will look for an appropriate C dynamic object,
> "mylib.dll" (windows) or
> "mylib.so" (linux).
> 
> Sorry, I don't know how to _make_ an appropriate
> .dll file (I only know
> how to do it under linux) though.
> 
> -Miles
> 
> -- 
> My spirit felt washed.  With blood.  [Eli Shin, on
> "The Passion of the Christ"]
> 



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