tolua++

[N64vSNES]

I've been trying to compile tolua++ with visual studio express 2008 and so far its just been problem after problem so does anybody know where I can get a pre compiled version?

Thanks

[avansc]

http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewto ... art=999999

Anyways,should not be to hard. Dont they use scons as it is...?

edit: also, you might wanna check out angel script as an alternative. its very nice.

[N64vSNES]

http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewto ... art=999999

Anyways,should not be to hard. Dont they use scons as it is...?

edit: also, you might wanna check out angel script as an alternative. its very nice.

Looked at that thread, it might be me just overcomplicating things ( I'm very good at ) but I can't even get the source files to compile from my project I still get link errors

[N64vSNES]

Heres the link errors I'm getting if it helps any.

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LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRTD' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
LuaState.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _tolua_open referenced in function "public: void __thiscall MainLuaState::Initialize(void)" (?Initialize@MainLuaState@@QAEXXZ)
toluabind.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _tolua_open
toluabind.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _tolua_endmodule referenced in function _tolua_tolua_open
toluabind.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _tolua_dobuffer referenced in function _tolua_tolua_open
toluabind.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _tolua_beginmodule referenced in function _tolua_tolua_open
toluabind.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _tolua_module referenced in function _tolua_tolua_open
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\V2.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 5 unresolved externals

I only get the erros when calling tolua_open(); otherwise the files compile fine :/

[avansc]

yanno, just read the INSTALL


This version of tolua++ uses SCons to compile (http://www.scons.org). SCons uses
pythin. If you don't want to install python, check "Installation without scons"
below.

* Installation

1. Edit the "config" file for your platform to suit your environment,
if at all necessary (for cygwin, mingw, BSD and mac OSX use
'config_posix')
2. Then, type "scons".

You can use 'scons -h' to see a list of available command line options.

* What you get

If "scons" succeeds, you get:
* an executable to generate binding code in ./bin;
* the C library to be linked in your application in ./lib;
* the include file needed to compile your application in ./include.
These are the only directories you need for development, besides Lua.

You can use 'scons install' to install the files, see the 'prefix' option.

* Installation without scons

The instructions for building tolua++ without scons depend on the particular
compiler you are using.
The simplest way is to create a folder with all .c and .h files except
'toluabind_default.c', and then create a project for the executable and the
library, as follows:

tolua.exe: all *.c *.h in src/bin (except toluabind_default.c)
tolua.lib: all *.c *.h in src/lib.

* Installation with Microsoft Visual Studio

The directory 'win32' contains project files for Microsoft Visual Studio 7
(contributed by Makoto Hamanaka). The project has 4 different build options:
withLua50_Release, withLua51_Release, withLua50_Debug and withLua51_Debug.
They all expect the lua library names used by the LuaBinaries packages
(http://luabinaries.luaforge.net/). The resulting files are built on /lib and
/bin (for the library and tolua++.exe).


make sure you have the lua libraries and that you link em.

[dandymcgee]

I've spent hours on end before trying to get tolua++ compiled. Ultimately I just took the precompiled route too, google'd the lib and found it in some repo somewhere.

I'm feeling up for a challenge, so maybe I'll try to compile it again. If anything good comes of it perhaps I'll post back and let you know.

Edit: Talked to Falco and he said to just toss the files into MSVC and compile them without any of that SCons bullshit. I don't have any way to test them atm, but I compiled it with Visual C++ 2008 Express so they should be all set to go. Let me know if you have any problems:

tolua++ 1.0.93 MSVC2008.zip

(178.07 KiB) Downloaded 96 times

[N64vSNES]

Ok I've decided against tolua and I've got luabind working.

So I thought I'd post here to save making a new thread.

Here is a problem I'm having with it.

Suppose I have a singelton class called 'Party' that has multiple playable characters like this

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class Party {
public:
Player[3];
private:
};

(example code not actual)

Now the player class have another class called PlayerSats that contain HP, MP, etc and holds get and set functions.

So how would I go about wrapping all of this to lua with luabind? I've googled around a bit but I can't find anything

[dandymcgee]

So how would I go about wrapping all of this to lua with luabind? I've googled around a bit but I can't find anything

Is there a particular reason you gave on tolua++ so fast? The ONLY trouble I ever had with it was getting it compiled, and I've just done that for you. I've never used luabind, but in tolua++ you just parse the cleaned header with the tolua++.exe, it outputs a package header which you include in your project, then you call a single function to initialize the class with use through lua and everything is ready to go.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articl ... le2596.asp Excellent tutorial for getting tolua++ up and running in your engine.

I know there are plenty of resources on LuaBind as well, so if you choose to head that direction instead just Google it (there are literally thousands of resources, if you can't find anything on Google you're not putting nearly enough effort into your searches).

[N64vSNES]

So how would I go about wrapping all of this to lua with luabind? I've googled around a bit but I can't find anything

Is there a particular reason you gave on tolua++ so fast? The ONLY trouble I ever had with it was getting it compiled, and I've just done that for you. I've never used luabind, but in tolua++ you just parse the cleaned header with the tolua++.exe, it outputs a package header which you include in your project, then you call a single function to initialize the class with use through lua and everything is ready to go.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articl ... le2596.asp Excellent tutorial for getting tolua++ up and running in your engine.

I know there are plenty of resources on LuaBind as well, so if you choose to head that direction instead just Google it (there are literally thousands of resources, if you can't find anything on Google you're not putting nearly enough effort into your searches).

Well if you advise it then I'll try tolua++ see how that goes and update you on it

[N64vSNES]

Ok this is kinda why I didn't use tolua++ after getting luabind working.

But I'm still willing to try it.

I'm not getting errors but I'm getting warnings :/

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Linking...
tolua++.lib(tolua_map.obj) : MSIL .netmodule or module compiled with /GL found; restarting link with /LTCG; add /LTCG to the link command line to improve linker performance
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRTD' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
Generating code
Finished generating code
tolua++.lib(tolua_push.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_is.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_event.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_map.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_to.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
Embedding manifest...
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
V2 - 0 error(s), 6 warning(s)
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Strange...

[Falco Girgis]

Ok this is kinda why I didn't use tolua++ after getting luabind working.

But I'm still willing to try it.

I'm not getting errors but I'm getting warnings :/

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Linking...
tolua++.lib(tolua_map.obj) : MSIL .netmodule or module compiled with /GL found; restarting link with /LTCG; add /LTCG to the link command line to improve linker performance
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRTD' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
Generating code
Finished generating code
tolua++.lib(tolua_push.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_is.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_event.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_map.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_to.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
Embedding manifest...
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
V2 - 0 error(s), 6 warning(s)
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Strange...

Are you linking a library that was built in Release to a Debug project? Don't even worry about the warnings, honestly.

[N64vSNES]

Ok this is kinda why I didn't use tolua++ after getting luabind working.

But I'm still willing to try it.

I'm not getting errors but I'm getting warnings :/

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Linking...
tolua++.lib(tolua_map.obj) : MSIL .netmodule or module compiled with /GL found; restarting link with /LTCG; add /LTCG to the link command line to improve linker performance
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRTD' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
Generating code
Finished generating code
tolua++.lib(tolua_push.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_is.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_event.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_map.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_to.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
Embedding manifest...
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
V2 - 0 error(s), 6 warning(s)
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Strange...

Are you linking a library that was built in Release to a Debug project? Don't even worry about the warnings, honestly.

I'm linking the libary that dandymcgee pre-compiled so I'm guessing it was in release yeah.

I know they're not of any concern but whats the suggestions for removing the warnings? because its just ugly to have several warnings every time I recompile my project.

[Falco Girgis]

Ok this is kinda why I didn't use tolua++ after getting luabind working.

But I'm still willing to try it.

I'm not getting errors but I'm getting warnings :/

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Linking...
tolua++.lib(tolua_map.obj) : MSIL .netmodule or module compiled with /GL found; restarting link with /LTCG; add /LTCG to the link command line to improve linker performance
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRTD' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
Generating code
Finished generating code
tolua++.lib(tolua_push.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_is.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_event.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_map.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
tolua++.lib(tolua_to.obj) : warning LNK4204: 'c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\vc90.pdb' is missing debugging information for referencing module; linking object as if no debug info
Embedding manifest...
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Owner.NICOSCOMPUTER\Desktop\V2\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
V2 - 0 error(s), 6 warning(s)
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Strange...

Are you linking a library that was built in Release to a Debug project? Don't even worry about the warnings, honestly.

I'm linking the libary that dandymcgee pre-compiled so I'm guessing it was in release yeah.

I know they're not of any concern but whats the suggestions for removing the warnings? because its just ugly to have several warnings every time I recompile my project.

There might be some linker flags you can set to tell it to shut the fuck up, but the "correct" and "proper" way to get rid of the warnings would be to recompile toLua++ in Debug and link to that.

That's why both release and debug have completely separate configurations--so that you can link your release build to release libraries and your debug build to debug libraries. Don't let me sound too uppity, though. I'm very guilty of not giving a fuck and only linking to release libs.

[N64vSNES]

Ok I've recompiled it and now I've got debug and release.

However I'm having seriouse issues getting my head around how tolua++ works

So I've figured it generates new files and you open the new package files within you're application.

But from the console trying to generate the files dosen't seem to be working for me, anybody willing to break this down for a noob?

[dandymcgee]

Ok I've recompiled it and now I've got debug and release.

However I'm having seriouse issues getting my head around how tolua++ works

So I've figured it generates new files and you open the new package files within you're application.

But from the console trying to generate the files dosen't seem to be working for me, anybody willing to break this down for a noob?

Did you read the tutorial in its entirety? Reading and research are inevitable if you want to accomplish anything.

I just wrote myself up a quick batch file to pass all of my cleaned headers through tolua++.exe. I don't have it handy atm, but the tutorial ought to give you the proper parameters to use.

Example PKGCompiler.bat:

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@echo off
tolua++.exe pkgCharacter -o pkgCharacter.cpp -H pkgCharacter.h Character.pkg
tolua++.exe pkgLevel -o pkgLevel.cpp -H pkgLevel.h Level.pkg
<etc..>
echo PKGCompiler Finished.
pause

Where the .pkg files are just your cleaned headers (see tutorial). The tolua++ executable must be in the same directory as this .bat (or you can just customize the paths to your needs).
It will output pkg[Name].cpp and pkg[Name].h, which you should include in your project.

I remember a bug where the output .cpp file has the wrong header name in the #Include<> directive, so you will need to change that. Then just call the function declared in the header to initialize the lua stuff (pkgName_Register()) or something like that.

Again, I think it's explained in a very straightforward manner in that tutorial (I'm using it as a guide to writing this post right now), so to help me help you, please specify which part you're having trouble understanding.

Post back with any issues you may encounter.