Problem with Lua 5.2 and lua_strlen

[Bertram25]

VT won't compile against lua 5.2 because of the lack of definition of the lua_strlen member which was renamed lua_rawlen. Defines will have to put to restore compilation on system with lua 5.2 comiled without compatibility support.

See also:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.swig/18673

And this thanks to qubodup:
http://codepad.org/CVsPwvag

/home/qubodup/src/git/ValyriaTear/src/luabind/luabind/detail/policy.hpp:
In member function ‘std::string luabind::default_converter<std::basic_string<char> >::from(lua_State*, int)’:
/home/qubodup/src/git/ValyriaTear/src/luabind/luabind/detail/policy.hpp:748:71:
error: ‘lua_strlen’ was not declared in this scope

[shirishag75]

At my end it works flawlessly with lua 5.2 . Probably the packagers did something right .

~/games/valyriatear$ lua -v
Lua 5.2.1 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

[Bertram25]

Indeed, I have no evidence so far, but I'm quite sure they compiled lua 5.2 on Debian using compatibility flags, something they maybe didn't do on arch linux.

Anyway, I'll have to add compatibility ifdefs.

[Bertram25]

Interesting commit, that i will partially and iteratively port using also the reference repo:
https://github.com/teto/luabind/commit/d03ccd182a9b35d84c1d57d77f0c5cc799576545
reference one:
https://github.com/rpavlik/luabind

[Bertram25]

Should be ok with:
003956f

[Bertram25]

Closing since I've got no reaction against the latest patch. Feel free to reopen it if needed.