Re: [Wxlua-users] Re: wxLua updated to lua 5.1, please test, NOTES for programmers

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On 3/29/06, Francesco Montorsi <f18...@ya...> wrote:
> > I came across what seemed to be a bug in the garbage collector in
> > 5.0.2. In the printing sample  "virtual" functions are set for the
> > wxLuaPrintout which get called instead of the c++ functions. However
> > in the print preview if you changed the size of the preview a few
> > times the functions you set (even if global, not local) would get
> > garbage collected.
> weird...

Yeah, that's why I haven't gotten around to the minimal/freeze program. :(

> > It compiles and runs using the "Makefiles" in the src dir of the
> > apps/XXX dirs. All the samples have been updated, but not thoroughly
> > tested.
> I've updated bakefiles but now, when I try to run wxluaedit I get a
> segmentation fault... (this with wx2.6.3 and with an up2date
> wxStedit...); other apps and samples I've tried work fine.

Ok, I'll try to debug it, works ok in linux for me.

> > Some notes on the changes for 5.1 that I've come across, there's more..=
.
> >
> > 1) lua 5.1 does not have an "include" dir so I faked it by copying the
> > pertinent headers that we use into it.
> if you want to keep the header files in lua/src/ folder it's fine for me
> as it's not a problem for bakefiles ;)

What about installing? I guess it'd be ok too since lua doesn't use
directories to nicely confine their headers anyway so it's just a
matter of fully specifying the include path.

#include "lua.h" instead of "lua/lua.h"

> I've updated the bakefiles using the list of source files provided in
> lua/INSTALL...

Thanks alot!
    John Labenski