Re: Existence of a luabind::execute_file function ?

While it's not as elegant, you could run the string "dofile('whatever')".
 Or, just fork Luabind on Github and add the header you'd like yourself. I'd
find it handy too.

Ryan

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Teto <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I started lua with luabind using it (or wanting to use it) as a C++
> wrapper for lua. It allowed me to run my first lua script very quickly
> (in a day) but also allowed me to avoid learning about lua inner
> mechanisms (which was a bad thing, I had quite some difficulties to
> getmyself learning the C api after that, I would recommand anyone to
> start using lua without luabind and after some time to resort to
> luabind)
> I was wrong since many things are not possible with luabind alone. You
> have to use lua functions. I was wondering to what extent luabind was
> meant to complete lua. For example, is there any project to create a
> function that replaces lua_loadfile || lua_pcall such as int
> luabind::execute_file(const char*).
> It would basically push the error callback function, load the file
> chunk and then do an appropriate pcall and pop the callback function.
> Does that go into the attribution of luabind ? or is luabind focusing
> on binding only ?
>
> Regards
>
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