Re: A Library for Converting Data to and from C Structs for Lua

[Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> wrote:
> I came accross a small library for converting data to an from C structs
> for Lua, written by Roberto Ierusalimschy:
>
> http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/struct/
>
> I plan to import it and to make it available to both lua(1) and lua(4)
> as follows:
>
> The source code will be imported into
> ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/sys/external/mit/struct unaltered and then be modified
> to compile on NetBSD.
>
> Then ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/sys/module/luastruct/ and
> ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/lib/lua/struct/ directories will be added with the
> respective Makefiles etc.
>

I always found this library so un user friendly that I would rather
program in C. Not sure it was meant as much more than a proof of
concept. YMMV.

Justin