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Vladimir Protasov
Vladimir Protasov

Reputation: 302

Is it possible to use functions from c++ namespaces with luajit ffi?

I've got a lot of c++ code which contains a lot of functions and classes in namespaces (boost, for example).
Now I'm trying to embed LuaJiT2 as script engine, but I cannot find anything about calling functions and using other stuff from namespaces.
So, Is it possible to pass the functions from c++ namespaces to LuaJIT with the FFI?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2661

Answers (2)

user1363990
user1363990

Reputation:

It is possible to use different name mangling other than C. The reason why its not "common" is because the C++ name mangling is very compiler/platform specific: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-07/msg00502.html

So this sort of declaration is valid:

ffi.cdef[[
void Test1_Method1(void) asm("_ZN5Test17Method1Ev");
]]

And you can then call Test1_Method1. Mike Pall has done an amazing job with luajit. So many great features.

Upvotes: 3

Nicol Bolas
Nicol Bolas

Reputation: 473447

You may use the standard Lua API to expose namespace-scope functions, as well as class static functions, to Lua. This is done exactly as you would with the regular Lua interpreter, since LuaJIT is drop-in compatible with it.

But you can't use FFI, because FFI is based on a C-based parsing of the header files. And you're using C++ syntax. FFI is not the only way to use LuaJIT; it's just one that is based on C.

Any of the C++-specific binding APIs that use Lua (Luabind, SWIG, etc) should work just fine with LuaJIT as well.

Upvotes: 8

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