[ZeroBrane Studio] Re: couple of questions and a new question
- From: Geoff smith <luadataviz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "zerobrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <zerobrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:54:57 +0000
Hello Paul
Sorry for the slow response to you message. That's good news, I hope you can
manage to figure out how to make all 3 run times co-exist, it would make life
simpler for your users.
While I am writing can I ask another newbie level question please ? I don't
really understand how ZBS does it magic and manages to debug scripts set
breakpoints etc.
When you are running Lua 5.1 interpreter and a simple script on a PC, I don't
believe that ZBS is using Luasocket to do the interfacing in this scenario ?
Please correct me if I am wrong ?
If I have a simple program that I have written that essentially is just a PC
exe that contains a statically linked Lua 5.1 source code with a bit of
additional C code functionality for my specific App. (For example I am
simulating some Relay outputs and switch inputs)
When the PC exe runs, it opens a Lua script to control the relays, look at the
switch inputs etc
From previous messages I think you said it isn't possible to use ZBS to debug
that script in this scenario ? I don't really understand why this isn't
possible as my EXE isn't that different to just a standard compilation of Lua
5.1 source.
Could you explain what the difference is and why this wouldn't work, it would
be interesting to understand this better.
Thanks Paul
Geoff
> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:26:06 -0800
> Subject: [ZeroBrane Studio] Re: couple of questions
> From: paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: zerobrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >> You know how easily things get confused, we will have folks putting gotos
> >> in the script that work fine on the PC but then don't work on the target.
> >> I just feel more comfortable keeping things in sync version wise.
>
> > That's an interesting point. It may be possible to "fix" with compile
> > time checks, but if you really want to use Lua 5.1 interpreter, I may
> > consider including it back. I don't see a way to make the DLLs
> > co-exist on Windows, so it would mean including yet another copy of
> > luasocket that is built against a Lua 5.1 dll.
>
> Just a quick update for Geoff and others interested in this topic. I
> might have found a way to make all three run-times (LuaJIT, Lua 5.1
> and Lua 5.2) to co-exist on Windows and OSX and to work well with
> different packaging mechanisms (LfW and LuaDist). I'm still working on
> the details and plan to have something to test early next week.
>
> Paul.
>
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