A cross platform Lua wrapper for Golang with some nice abstractions.
The drive behind making this project is for use in another project that is reimagining the web using a custom
Lua runtime. This project allows for Golang code to hack the vanilla Lua runtime to add, remove, and modify code
before it is even seen by the lua compiler. One such example of where this is useful is in the ability to
patch Lua's require() function as seen in main.go from commit: 8267d7b to both limit it to not import the os module but also extend it to look
at user defined global modules. This could be further extended to make requests to servers similar to the inner workings
of a browser when you import something in javascript which triggers a HTTP GET for that file.
Assuming Brent Farris' README to be correct.
I modified the ./lua/wrapper.go to include the LDFLAGS and it built fine on my mac system running:
Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0 -- arm64. If the build is working for Brent, I am going to consider this covering
all platforms ∈ {MacOS, Windows, Linux} (and maybe any POSIX system) as true until proven otherwise.
You will need to ensure you have gcc on your system since this package uses CGo.
If you want to contribute, I also am assuming that you have wget, make, zip installed and in your path.
If there is a change in lua dependency for the project, the make file will change. Run make to install the
changes and patch the install. If you are using this project through go get you will not need to worry
about this as each new dependency or change will be a tag in the github repo for you to update to with go get -u
I am using the Lua official codebase. I do not own the code, I am simply using, patching, and writting a wrapper around it to ensure that you can interop with lua without all the hassle I went through :)
Lua us under the MIT licence. See it's licence here.
My jumping off point for this project was the BrentFarris/Cgo-Lua project. It is also under the MIT licence and can be viewed here.
Inspiration and some points of research from martin/go-sqlite3.
A lot of my code will be similar to Brent Farris' code as we have similar projects. My project will likely implement a few more features over Brent's code and a few less.