From 8b4837cbe9da12f008c5cd5d964114154b9dee96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Remko=20Tron=C3=A7on?= Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:23:27 +0200 Subject: Add Sluift README Contains only some build hints at the moment. Change-Id: I09fc3b133e880949ad8ee33227ab35f36f3ec875 diff --git a/Sluift/README.md b/Sluift/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8eacc2b --- /dev/null +++ b/Sluift/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Sluift + +## Building/Installing + +If you have a Lua installed on your system, edit `config.py` to point the build +to it using the `lua_libdir`, `lua_includedir`, and `lua_libname` (usually +only needed on Windows) variables. + +In case no Lua installation is found, a bundled Lua version will be used. +Note that there are several limitations when using the bundled Lua: + +- The standalone Sluift binary will not support dynamic loading of modules. +- The Sluift module will not be built + +The standalone executable will be placed into `Sluift/exe`, and the loadable +Lua module in `Sluift/dll`. + +In order to use the Sluift Lua module, make sure it is copied to a location in the +Lua search path (`LUA_PATH`, or the built-in path). On Linux and Mac OS X, this is +typically `/lib/lua//`. If `require 'sluift'` fails, +the error message will give an indication what this path is. -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6