--[==========================================================================[ luac.lua: lua compilation module for VLC (duplicates luac) --[==========================================================================[ Copyright (C) 2010 Antoine Cellerier $Id$ Authors: Antoine Cellerier This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. --]==========================================================================] usage = [[ To compile a lua script to bytecode (luac) run: vlc -I lua --lua-intf --lua-config 'luac={input="file.lua",output="file.luac"}' Output will be similar to that of the luac command line tool provided with lua with the following arguments: luac -o file.luac file.lua ]] require "string" require "io" function compile() vlc.msg.info("About to compile lua file") vlc.msg.info(" Input is '"..tostring(config.input).."'") vlc.msg.info(" Output is '"..tostring(config.output).."'") if not config.input or not config.output then vlc.msg.err("Input and output config options must be set") return false end local bytecode, msg = loadfile(config.input) if not bytecode then vlc.msg.err("Error while loading file '"..config.input.."': "..msg) return false end local output, msg = io.open(config.output, "wb") if not output then vlc.msg.err("Error while opening file '"..config.output.."' for output: "..msg) return false else output:write(string.dump(bytecode)) return true end end if not compile() then for line in string.gmatch(usage,"([^\n]+)\n*") do vlc.msg.err(line) end end vlc.misc.quit()