Convert LUA to C! IT WORKS!!!!!!!!

[sg57]

YAY! Theres this tool in the actual Windows LUA Distribution called: bin2c
Its only but the source of it, so i messed with it a bit to print the Array of bytes to a file, thus converting the LUA to C, so ican use the:

luaL_loadbuffer(lua_State *L, const char *buff, size_t sz,
const char *name);
Call to convert those bytes to C via the intrepter...

what im asking here though, is... In order for me to use this, do i have to include all of the LuaPlayer source and what not?

Or just make sure i can complie what LuaPlayer was complied with...

I think there is 1 more function im looking for... since i heard u must use the lua_dobuffer to actually get it running...

Any thoughts on converting LUA to C anybody? Besides old fashion way?

[groepaz]

are you sure "bin2c" doesnt simply read a binary and outputs an array in C syntax (and thus doesnt really have anything to do with LUA) ? :=P

[dot_blank]

hehe but he is so close ....fact is you cannot convert
a script language like LUA into a high level language like C

[groepaz]

uhm, it might actually be doable... LUA is kindof typeless C afterall. probably not easily possible without (a lot of) manual editing though :)

[ufoz]

It's probably storing some form of compiled lua bytecode, I thought this was always possible if you didn't want to keep text scripts around? It's been a while since I touched the lua sdk... (obviously you still need the interpreter/environment, duhh)

[lokust]

It's probably storing some form of compiled lua bytecode, I thought this was always possible if you didn't want to keep text scripts around? It's been a while since I touched the lua sdk... (obviously you still need the interpreter/environment, duhh)

Yeah, supposedly you can pre-compile your lua scripts and load them at run-time. But really, nine times out of ten wouldnt it be easiest (and most likely safer) to just convert it manually to c?