Investigate mlua as replacement for luajit2-sys #123

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opened 2023-11-09 11:57:58 +01:00 by lucas · 0 comments

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2023-11-09 11:57:58 +01:00

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The luajit2-sys bindings work, but are a bit cumbersome to work with.

The most important aspect to watch out for in the replacement is that we need LuaJIT at a specific version, such that the bytecode we create with string.dump is compatible with what the game wants.

The fork of luajit2-sys is sitting at a very specific commit for that reason. mlua would need some way of selecting the LuaJIT version it compiles, as well.

The `luajit2-sys` bindings work, but are a bit cumbersome to work with. The most important aspect to watch out for in the replacement is that we need LuaJIT at a specific version, such that the bytecode we create with `string.dump` is compatible with what the game wants. The fork of `luajit2-sys` is sitting at a very specific commit for that reason. `mlua` would need some way of selecting the LuaJIT version it compiles, as well.