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Integrate Lua with C++. Seamlessly integrate Lua scripting to enhance application flexibility

Integrate Lua with C++. Seamlessly integrate Lua scripting to enhance application flexibility

Wenhuan Li

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C++ is a popular choice in the developer community for building complex and large-scale performant applications and systems. Often a need arises to extend the system at runtime, without recompiling the whole C++ program. Using a scripting language like Lua can help achieve this goal efficiently.
Integrate Lua to C++ is a comprehensive guide to integrating Lua to C++ and will enable you to achieve the goal of extending C++ programs at runtime. You’ll learn, in sequence, how to get and compile the Lua library, the Lua programming language, calling Lua code from C++, and calling C++ code from Lua. In each topic, you’ll practice with code examples, and learn the in-depth mechanisms for smooth working. Throughout the book, the latter examples build on the earlier ones while also acting as a standalone. You’ll learn to implement Lua executor and Lua binding generator, which you can use in your projects directly with further customizations.
By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered integrating Lua into C++ and using Lua in your C++ project efficiently, gained the skills to extend your applications at runtime, and achieved dynamic and adaptable C++ development.
  • 1. Get and Build Lua with C++
  • 2. Lua Fundamentals
  • 3. How to Call Lua from C++
  • 4. Map Lua Types to C++
  • 5. Work with Lua Tables
  • 6. How to Call C++ from Lua
  • 7. User Defined Types in C++
  • 8. A C++ Template Class to Export C++ to Lua
  • 9. Some Advanced Techniques
  • 10. Managing Resources
  • 11. Multithreading
  • Title: Integrate Lua with C++. Seamlessly integrate Lua scripting to enhance application flexibility
  • Author: Wenhuan Li
  • Original title: Integrate Lua with C++. Seamlessly integrate Lua scripting to enhance application flexibility
  • ISBN: 9781805123637, 9781805123637
  • Date of issue: 2023-10-27
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3p9h
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing