Hi all.
This is probably a wildly discussed topic, but I haven't found a good compilation of the resources as new ones pops up all over the place, and others die..
Problem: Given a C++ API I want to export classes, methods, namespaces, enums to lua. Being able to implement virtual methods in lua, calling them from C++/lua transparently...
This is a the list I know about, correct me if Im wrong, perhaps someone can update a list on the lua site?
* Require manual labour of explicitly listing all classes, methods enums that should be exported.
- LuaBind
* Templetized way of exporting C++ classes
* Require manual labour of explicitly listing all classes, methods enums that should be exported.
* Full support of virtual methods
* Seems to handle namespaces?
- tolua
* dead
- tolua++
* Parse either modified header files OR cleaned .h (.tolua/.pkg) files
* Require manual creation of suitable .pkg files
* Do not support virtual methods in lua
* Handle namespaces
- luaQT (right now specialized for QT, but...)
* Parse .h files of the target API
* Require you to filter out unwanted classes, but after that its automatic
* Does not handle namespaces
More?
What I really like about the luaQT approach is it has a big gain exporting numerous API:s where you want to avoid the manual labour of specifying each and every class/method, this is a tedious work and has to be redone each time you update your dependencies, unless you want to wrap everything into a scripting layer which you then export...
Right now yet another way would be to use cpp2xml (like luaQT) and generate cleaned up .pkg files and run those through tolua++. However this would not give me support for virtual methods, this would be added to tolua++...
Looking for quite some feedback because I know this is a hot issue!
Cheers, Anders