Library

Introduction An often overlooked feature of Lua is the C API. The most common use I’ve seen is to allow Lua scripts to use existing C libraries instead of reimplementing existing functionality in pure Lua (which is not always feasible). Fortunately, Lua has very strong integration with C and while not trivial, wrapping a C library is fairly straight foreword. That said Lua’s C API isn’t specific to this task, it’s just a common use of the C API....

Introduction Not very long ago my boss walked up to my desk, put a pile of books down beside me and said “Not it”. The books were all related to COM programming. The project he gave me was to create a COM wrapper for an existing C library we had developed. Windows is not my primary development platform, so I was tasked with learning COM and then writing a wrapper around our C library....