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Lua Sample

Note:
You should ensure that you have installed package lua-devel so that you could find /usr/lib/lua/ or /usr/lib64/lua/

using Lua;

int my_func (LuaVM vm) {
    stdout.printf ("Vala Code From Lua Code! (%f)\n", vm.to_number (1));
    return 1;
}

void main (string[] args) {
    string code = """
            print "Lua Code From Vala Code!"
            my_func(33)
        """;

    var vm = new LuaVM ();
    vm.open_libs ();
    vm.register ("my_func", my_func);
    vm.do_string (code);
}

Compile and Run

$ valac --pkg lua luatest.vala -o luatest
$ ./luatest
Lua Code From Vala Code!
Vala Code From Lua Code! (33.000000)

Note: Some distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu install the pkg-config information for Lua under a wrong name. Here's a workaround:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua5.1.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc

Alternatively, you can rename the vapi file.

Lua Table Sample

Based on Simple Lua Api Example from lua-users.org.

using Lua;

void main () {
    var vm = new LuaVM ();
    vm.open_libs ();

    // Create a Lua table with name 'foo'
    vm.new_table ();
    for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++) {
        vm.push_number (i);     // Push the table index
        vm.push_number (i * 2); // Push the cell value
        vm.raw_set (-3);        // Stores the pair in the table
    }
    vm.set_global ("foo");

    // Ask Lua to run our little script
    vm.do_string ("""
        -- Receives a table, returns the sum of its components.
        io.write("The table the script received has:\n");
        x = 0
        for i = 1, #foo do
          print(i, foo[i])
          x = x + foo[i]
        end
        io.write("Returning data back to C\n");
        return x
    """);

    // Get the returned value at the top of the stack (index -1)
    var sum = vm.to_number (-1);

    stdout.printf ("Script returned: %.0f\n", sum);
    vm.pop (1); // Take the returned value out of the stack
}

$ valac --pkg lua simplesample.vala -o simplesample
$ ./simplesample


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