Introduciton

Bo-LuaWaxProjectTemplate is a xcode project template and tools for iOS development with Lua Wax

Installation

You need to have waxsim and Lua installed before using this template

unzip the downloaded zip file to any where you like

Usage

First you need to compile two version of Lua: one for the usage in mac os x, another one for working on iphone

cd <Bo-LuaWaxProjectTemplate root>
./buildlua.sh

Create a project

In terminal, change your directory to this project root

cd <Bo-LuaWaxProjectTemplate root>
./createprj.sh <path of your project>

Run the newly created project

• you can open the project in xcode to build and run it as a normal xcode iOS app project

or

• you can change your directory to the newly create project, and run ./build.sh

cd <path of the newly created project>
./build.sh

the iOS simulator will automatically started

where to put your lua code

you need to put your lua code under the scripts directory

how to compile lua code to byte code during the build

by default, wax will copy all your lua source code to the application. To use the byte code in the application, you need to open the project in xcode and modify the user setting WAX_COMPILE_SCRIPTS from false to true

TODO

• LuaJIT support