Question: including .so file in a rock

[oktoze]

I've written lua bindings for a go package using ffi which loads the shared object file generated by cgo. Is there a way to include that .so file in the rock itself, rather than having it in /lib/ directory?

[daurnimator]

Is there a way to include that .so file in the rock itself,

I assume you mean in an architecture-specific precompiled rock?

[hishamhm]

You can't deploy arbitrary non-Lua libraries. The only way to ship your compiled Go code in a rock would be to link it statically in a Lua/C module, but since this is an FFI library, you need to deploy your Go library via the usual method for your OS, and then deploy the pure-Lua FFI bindings as a Lua rock separately.