Re: Wishlists and Modules (was [ANN] libmc)

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jerome Vuarand
Date: 9/4/2009 6:42 AM
> This all comes down to the fact that C don't allow embedding large
> text files in programs easily, or that some people write Lua modules.
> It's very nice that some people (like the Lua authors) take time to
> write C modules when they could take less time to do the same in pure
> Lua or a C/Lua hybrid, but as the language becomes popular and the
> "level" of modules gets higher, doing it all in C is just too much
> work.
>   
This reminds me of a gripe that has been brought up before, but it bit 
me again the other day.  Someone, please tell me I am doing it wrong.

I have a module that has a mymodule.lua file and a mymodule.dll.  I want 
to require 'mymodule' and have it load both mymodule.lua and 
mymodule.dll.  Instead, I have to have mymodule.lua require 
'mymodule.core' (or something similar) and change the exported symbol to 
luaopen_mymodule_core, so that mymodule.dll can be loaded.  This was a 
pain, because initially, there was only a mymodule.dll with the export 
luaopen_mymodule, and when I added mymodule.lua, I had to find the code 
for and recompile mymodule.dll with a changed export.

Is there a better way?

Josh