lcall

A very crude library to enable lua call functions in dynamic link library like this:

lua.calls('__stdcall', 'user32', 'MessageBoxA', 0, 'Message Box Message', 'Caption', 0);

In order to use lcall, please include "lcall.h" and call lcall_open just like lua_openlibs.

Please refer the test/*_example.lua for more details ,

This library supports windows x86 for now. I'm coding it to make it run on linux.

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Api Documentation

lcall.load

lcall.load('library_name')

Returns the handler of a dynamic link library.

lcall.get

lcall.get('function_name')

Return the address of a function in dynamic library.

lcall.call

lcall.call('call_convention', address_of_function, arguments)

Calls the function address_of_function returned by lcall.get. The call_convention should be __stdcall or __cdecl. More call conventions will be supported in the future. arguments are passed to the target function, You can set them to meet your need.

Only LUA_TNIL, LUA_TNUMBER, LUA_TBOOLEAN, LUA_TSTRING, LUA_TLIGHTUSERDATA are supported. LUA_TTABLE, LUA_TFUNCTION, LUA_TUSERDATA, and LUA_TTHREAD are not support for now. the supported types are treated as follow:

• LUA_TNIL: int 0
• LUA_TNUMBER: int ?
• LUA_TBOOLEAN: int 1 or int 0
• LUA_TSTRING: void *
• LUA_TLIGHTUSERDATA: void *

The return value while be stored as a lightuserdata.

lcall.calls

lcall.calls('call_convention', 'library_name', 'function_name', arguments);

An easy way to call a function in a dynamic link library. Using this function is equal to use code below:

lcall.call('call_convention', lcall.get(lcall.load('library_name'), 'function_name'), arguments);

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Others

The aim of this project is to provide a way to call any function provided by operating system directly in Lua. Just like what the FFI does.

But just like what official website said: _The lib _

There is a long way to go. A lot of things should be considered like:

• how to mapping from Lua table to C struct
• how to detect the call convention from a library, rather than set it in lua.
• how to manage many kinds of allocated resource for futrue reuse.