[Wxlua-users] extending GLFW with wx / using wxlua as library in a c-project

[Eike D. <ei...@cu...>]

Hi
Thanks for the answer and positive feedback on a C compatible header.
I am sorry that I haven't described the full "problem" in my last 
request, but I didn't thought it was necessary, but it seems to be more 
complicated than I thought (surprise surprise).

The project I talked about is a 3D engine that can be extended by using 
lua and it looks currently quite nice 
(http://chilli.degnet.de/~e_decker/lux/index.php/Main/Screenshots - 
website is under construction...). - anyhow: We are currently using GLFW 
as windowenvironment for OpenGL which replaced Glut (we want to be 
plattformindependent). Now, the idea about wx was, that we could use it 
to extend the engine with GUI elements for making editors, etc.

I have now tried out the loadlib function in lua to load the dll like this:
 luaopen = loadlib("wxLua.dll", "wxLua")

unfortunately, calling luaopen in lua itself crashs the application 
somewhere deeply in the dll and I can't debug this. Meanwhile I am also 
not sure anymore if it is really possible to extend the engine this way 
since we need our own mainloop. I guess that creating a new window using 
WX makes the engine crash since GLFW did this before - but it's only a 
guess, I haven't spend too much time on this window-stuff programming...

As a possibility, we could switch from GLFW to WX - but this would cause 
much more work on this (a little bit minor) problem than we wanted to spend.

Any creative ideas how to solve this problem without spending too much 
work in rewriting the C core of the engine?

Thanks in advance
Eike Decker