Lua .NET How to use the standard and third party libraries

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Lua .NET How to use the standard and third party libraries

I am using Lua inside C# WinForms application for GUI automation testing. I want to use the logging library http://www.keplerproject.org/lualogging/

But I don't know where to copy those logging library files and other standard lua files so that I can use the standard lua logging within the lua scripts.

I see something like LUA_PATH but still I don't understand how to make the lua packing strcuture without installing it.

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Did you tried to use LuaRocks (http://www.luarocks.org/). Most libraries (including lualogging) are in the repositories, and the install is straightforward : luarocks install lualogging.

About the environment variables, you have to define two : LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH. If i'm correct, LUA_PATH is for the Lua libraries (i.e. mylib.lua), and LUA_CPATH is for the compiled binding to a native library (e.g. lsqlite3.so for the Sqlite binding).

Hope this helps.

jideel 2010-04-01 12:06:10

Does LUA_PATH supports multiple directories for example, in windows I should be able to mention LUA_PATH=C:\LUA51;C:\MyApp\Lua\Scripts;C:\Myapp\Lua\Lib;Looks like LuaInterface has got issues with loading lua libraries when they reside outside path. Something needs to be hooked there

Gopalakrishnan Subramani 2010-04-05 07:46:11

My environment variables are set this way :LUA_PATH=/Users/jideel/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/?.lua;?.luaLUA_CPATH=/Users/jideel/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.1/?.so;?.soSo multiple paths separated by a ; seems to be supported, although i'didn't tried with Windows.

jideel 2010-04-06 12:50:19

;?.lua is meant to search lua files in the directory from wich the app has started.

jideel 2010-04-06 12:51:09

the ?.lua or ?.so, ?.dylib, ?.dll is mandatory. You can't just specify the path alone.

jideel 2010-04-06 12:51:59

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