[erlang-questions] Calling into Lua from Erlang

[Kunthar]

Great news. Thank you for your effort.



On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM, cyril romain<cyril.romain@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Robert Raschke wrote:
>
> I will need to call Lua scripts from within Erlang soon. I was
> wondering if anyone has already looked into a slightly closer binding
> than calling an external program to run the Lua script and marshalling
> via stdin/out?
>
> I am currently undecided whether to make the Lua API available to be
> invoked from Erlang (via a linked-in driver) or if it might be more
> useful to write a Lua library that allows a Lua script to function as
> an Erlang node (similar to the Erlang Jinterface lib for Java).
>
> I would gratefully receive opinions and wisdom on this kind of stuff
>
>
> I'm please to announce the creation of erlua, a project I started some month
> ago to enable seamless interoperability between Erlang and the Lua
> programming language.
> Since no such binding is available in the FOSS world, I decided to make it
> free software.
>
> Erlua actually provides a C node (using EI interface only) that supports:
> - almost all conversions between Erlang types and lua types
> - syntax checking of lua file or code chunk
> - execution of lua file or lua code chunk from Erlang
> - getting/setting lua table and fields from Erlang
> - lua function calls from Erlang
> - remote Erlang procedure call from lua
>
> Erlua can be use for various purposes: to read configuration files written
> in lua, to embed a lightweight scripting language (lua) into an Erlang
> application, to use lua libraries from Erlang ... and many other ideas that
> probably comes to your mind :-)
> Future work: improve Erlang binding from Lua (e.g. to spawn processes and
> send Erlang messages from Lua), so that even more crazy things can be
> achieved !
>
> Code is freely available under GPL at http://gitorious.org/erlua
>
> Happy hacking,
>
> Cyril
>