Hi All,
I just want to add yet another one:
SLB: Simple Lua Binder (http://slb.pplux.com) http://svn.pplux.com/SLB
* templatized, similar to LuaBind but without Boost ( it is just
standard C++ )
* supports virtual functions
* supports namespaces
* hybrid classes -> partially implemented in lua
* can do inheritance from script -> using hybrid classes
* can add methods implemented using lua api to extend functionality
on the script side.
* very undocumented, ... but I can do better XD
* the author is quite near and friendly, well it's me actually XD
I would like to use something like cpp2xml to generate the
wrapper-templatized code, but never got to that point, actually I like
manually wrapping even some methods I turn to lua api to improve its
use, a 1:1 lua version from C++ is not always the best solution.
If you want to give it a try, just tell me.
Cheers,
Jose-Luis H.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Anders Backman <andersb@cs.umu.se> wrote:
Hi all.
This is probably a wildly discussed topic, but I haven't found a good
compilation of the resources as new ones pops up all over the place, and
others die..
Problem: Given a C++ API I want to export classes, methods, namespaces,
enums to lua. Being able to implement virtual methods in lua, calling them
from C++/lua transparently...
This is a the list I know about, correct me if Im wrong, perhaps someone can
update a list on the lua site?
- LuaBridge
* Templetized way of exporting C++ classes
* Require manual labour of explicitly listing all classes, methods enums
that should be exported.
*one way only, exporting C++ to lua (no virtual callbacks to lua?)
* Handles namespaces?
- LuaBind
* Templetized way of exporting C++ classes
* Require manual labour of explicitly listing all classes, methods enums
that should be exported.
* Full support of virtual methods
* Seems to handle namespaces?
- tolua
* dead
- tolua++
* Parse either modified header files OR cleaned .h (.tolua/.pkg) files
* Require manual creation of suitable .pkg files
* Do not support virtual methods in lua
* Handle namespaces
- luaQT (right now specialized for QT, but...)
* Parse .h files of the target API
* Require you to filter out unwanted classes, but after that its automatic
* Does not handle namespaces
More?
What I really like about the luaQT approach is it has a big gain exporting
numerous API:s where you want to avoid the manual labour of specifying each
and every class/method, this is a tedious work and has to be redone each
time you update your dependencies, unless you want to wrap everything into a
scripting layer which you then export...
Right now yet another way would be to use cpp2xml (like luaQT) and generate
cleaned up .pkg files and run those through tolua++. However this would not
give me support for virtual methods, this would be added to tolua++...
Looking for quite some feedback because I know this is a hot issue!
Cheers, Anders
