The FFI library

[matiasah]

Hello, UniLua has most of the standard libraries from Lua (they're understandable because it's documentation can be found on lua.org), but the FFI library used in UniLua is quite different from LuaFFI, can you provide some documentation to it or at least some examples of the usage?

[xebecnan]

the FFI library is experimental, and it is not recommended to use it. so
right now there is no document.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Starkkz [email protected] wrote:

Hello, UniLua has most of the standard libraries from Lua (they're
understandable because it's documentation can be found on lua.org), but
the FFI library used in UniLua is quite different from LuaFFI, can you
provide some documentation to it or at least some examples of the usage?

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[matiasah]

Hello again, I'm not actually using UniLua for development but I know someone that does, that means the only way we could mod UniLua is either with DLL(s) or FFI. The DLL way seems too complicated for me, so I just wanted to come with three questions.
1.- The FFI library might lead the program to crash if not used correctly, is it functional if its used correctly?
2.- Is the FFI library integrated by default whenever you load the base libraries?
3.- I saw one of the Lua coded files (ffi.lua) being requiring a plain .cs file, I'm not used to C# but from what I understood they're code files and that means you can load it as if it was a dynamic library, am I wrong?

[gillonline]

hi Starkkz, I think the best way using UniLua is making implementation of API which you need. You could find a example here.

[matiasah]

Hmmmm.... Link?

[gillonline]

https://github.com/xebecnan/UniLua/wiki/%E4%BB%8E-Lua-%E8%B0%83%E7%94%A8-C%23-%E5%87%BD%E6%95%B0-%28-Calling-C%23-funcitons-from-Lua-%29
sorry for lost the url

[matiasah]

I'm a bit confused for the language used there, is libfoo.cs included in the binary (as well as a module name) or just a file that can be loaded from the executable's folder?