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

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

John Labenski ha scritto:
> On 5/17/06, Francesco Montorsi 
> <f18...@ya...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>     I'm experimenting with wx module and I've got a few proposals for it:
>>
>> 1) the luamodule.wx.lua files in wxLua/apps/luamodule/src is an example,
>> isn't it ? Shouldn't then go in wxLua/samples ?
>> wrapmodule.wx.lua is an utility so shouldn't it got in wxLua/utils ?
> 
> Eh... I think these are pretty specialized. But, you're probably
> right, once things work they should be moved. I just put them into the
> dir where I generated the shared lib since I was having trouble with
> the paths for require.
Ok, another thing which now comes to my mind: "luamodule" directory 
should probably be moved too, in wxLua/modules. In fact, it does not 
build any application at all, just a .so/.dll

BTW: I'd organize the thing as:
-> wx.so/dll is always placed in wxLua/lib (even if, in Unix, you're 
building from a different build folder, e.g. wxLua/mybuild)

-> luamodule.wx.lua sample uses
package.cpath = ";;../lib/?.so;..\lib\?.dll"
before the call to require("wx")

-> on Unix, wx.so is installed in  $prefix/lib/lua/5.1

Now, developers using wxLua which want to ship an application entirely 
written in wxLua, which uses the require("wx") notation, will just need 
to ship:

-> all DLLs/.so of wxLua/lib if they built wxLua as a shared library 
(SHARED=1)
-> wx.so/.dll if they built wxLua as a static library (SHARED=0).
    In fact, wx.so/.dll should be built regardless of the SHARED option 
value: when SHARED==1, it will just be a super-small file which tells 
the OS to load the other .so/.dll libraries; when SHARED==0, it will be 
a bigger lib (on my Unix, it is about 9,4 MB) which is self-contained.

What do you think ?

Francesco