Build as library?

[jockm]

Is it possible to build eLua as a library. I would like to incorporate eLua into an embedded app (on a microcontroller) so that app can launch eLua to run user scripts.

Any suggestions as to how to do this would be greatly appreciated

[bogdanm]

There's no way to do that currently, and it'll probably take more than a few changes to the build system to do it, since currently eLua insists to be in control of the whole system (platform initialization, memory allocation, interrupt handling and so on). So you're looking at a bit of work to make this happen.

[higaski]

Packing eLua as configurable library might actually be a good idea. I think the MicroPython repository is a good example for that. They have several ports which range from "full-fledged" operating system with a whole lot of peripheral modules to "bare minimum" embedded interpreter.

For future reference I have patched a vanilla Lua 5.1.5 version with the LTR (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-11/msg00331.html) patch here:
https://www.load.to/7BTqXUrrlW/lua-5.1.5.tar.gz

I can't say how different it is from the version used in eLua though...