Bug#360634: lua5.1: Please add bin2c

2006-04-04 Thread Reuben Thomas 
I think bin2c is best avoided (the Lua authors have the right idea). 
At the least, it's terribly named: "bin2c" sounds general, yet this 
tool has the specific job of generating Lua C API code.


lua2c?

Thanks for the tip, but it is a most useful tool to have.

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Bug#360634: lua5.1: Please add bin2c

2006-04-03 Thread John Belmonte 
> Please add bin2c to the -dev package; it's most useful. LuaBinaries
> packages already include it.

Hi Reuben,

I think bin2c is best avoided (the Lua authors have the right idea).  At
the least, it's terribly named: "bin2c" sounds general, yet this tool
has the specific job of generating Lua C API code.  Not /usr/bin
material in my opinion.

As suggested by Luiz, please consider using xxd:

  $ apt-get install vim-common  # provides "xxd"
  $ echo "print('hi')" > test.lua
  $ xxd -i test.lua > test_lua.c

Then in your C program (quite easy to make a macro of this):

  int do_test_lua(lua_State* L)
  {
  #include "test_lua.c"
  return luaL_loadbuffer(L, (void*)test_lua, test_lua_len,
  "test.lua") || lua_pcall(L, 0, 0, 0);
  }


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Bug#360634: lua5.1: Please add bin2c

2006-04-03 Thread Reuben Thomas 
Package: lua5.1
Version: 5.1-0bpo1
Severity: wishlist

Please add bin2c to the -dev package; it's most useful. LuaBinaries
packages already include it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-hibernate
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lua5.1 depends on:
ii  libc62.3.5-1ubuntu17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libreadline5 5.0-10  GNU readline and history libraries

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