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Col_Blimp
Col_Blimp

Reputation: 789

Lua luac.exe create binary file from string

Using luac5.1.exe is there anyway to pass it a string to create a binary file or does anyone know of any module that could create a syntax checked binary file, what I'm looking to do is create a settings file that can be loaded again by require.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 967

Answers (2)

lhf
lhf

Reputation: 72312

Perhaps try this:

function compile(source,file)
   io.open(file,"wb")
     :write(string.dump(assert(loadstring(source,""))))
     :close()
end

Upvotes: 1

Doug Currie
Doug Currie

Reputation: 41180

Note that require loads lua source files or dynamic libraries. Yu might be better off with a custom loader if you really need binary data.

Two libraries that do this are Roberto's struct and lhf's lpack.

If you really want require then you could convert your binary data to strings, but since presumably that are userdata, you'll need a C function to translate the userdata to a Lua accessible type such as string or number.

Upvotes: 2

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