Lua and libffi

[Marc Balmer]

Hi

has anybody tried to make a libffi binding for Lua?  If yes, what was the outcome?

- mb

[steve donovan]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer <[hidden email]> wrote:
> has anybody tried to make a libffi binding for Lua?  If yes, what was the outcome?

The Alien package did this, and worked well for not-too-complicated tasks.

[Charles Heywood]

I'm not sure if there's a recent libffi binding; however, there is https://github.com/facebook/luaffifb which is (mostly) compatible wtih the LuaJIT FFI and runs on 5.1 through 5.3.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:32 AM steve donovan <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Marc Balmer <[hidden email]> wrote:
> has anybody tried to make a libffi binding for Lua?  If yes, what was the outcome?

The Alien package did this, and worked well for not-too-complicated tasks.

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[Ericson Carlos]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Charles Heywood <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm not sure if there's a recent libffi binding; however, there is https://github.com/facebook/luaffifb which is (mostly) compatible wtih the LuaJIT FFI and runs on 5.1 through 5.3.

​There's also this one, seems similar: https://github.com/jmckaskill/luaffi

Seems older, still working: I tested it a bit with 5.1​

[Coda Highland]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 3:11 PM, rexonf <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Charles Heywood <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure if there's a recent libffi binding; however, there is
>> https://github.com/facebook/luaffifb which is (mostly) compatible wtih the
>> LuaJIT FFI and runs on 5.1 through 5.3.
>>
>
> There's also this one, seems similar: https://github.com/jmckaskill/luaffi
> Seems older, still working: I tested it a bit with 5.1
>

luaffifb is forked from luaffi to add support for newer versions of
Lua. The similarity is not unintentional. ;)

/s/ Adam