[Wxlua-users] Re: LUA_PATH (Ray) Re: require("wx") and build stuff

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Ray Gilbert ha scritto:
> Being able to set LUA_PATH from within lua script is does not work with 5.1
> 
> I hacked code to look for LUA_PATH in our version of loadlib.c - but it only uses it for pname of "path" i.e. .lua files.
> 
> You could change loadlib.c code to
> 
>   /* Make 5.0 compatible to allow global LUA_PATH to be set from LUA */
>   if (strcmp(pname, "path") == 0 || strcmp(pname, "cpath") == 0) {
> 						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>       lua_getfield(L, LUA_GLOBALSINDEX, LUA_PATH);
> 
> 
> so that it will pick up "cpath" libraries 
thanks for the tip but I'd prefer not to modify the loadlib.c code - 
specially because I've solved this problem with package.cpath ;)

BTW, why was this LUA_PATH change added ?
It would be great if we could use the verbatim lua 5.1 distribution in 
modules/lua...

Thanks!
Francesco