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tolua++ is an extended version of tolua, a tool to integrate C/C++ code with Lua. tolua++ includes new features oriented to c++ such as:

Support for std::string as a basic type (this can be turned off by a command line option).
Support for class templates

As well as other features and bugfixes.

News:

1/2/05: version 1.0.4 released. This version contains some bugfixes and new features:

Ability to customize tolua++'s behaviour to add functionality.
Basic support for multiple inheritance.
Several bugfixes on the parser.
Debian package available for download.

Most of the changes on this version were added for lua_qt, a package to bind the Qt toolkit to lua.

20/9/04: version 1.0.3 released. This version contains major bugfixes:

Fixed bugs in object tracking (the 'memory address' bug; there's still some work left, but people should be able to use unions with no problems)
Fixed parser bugs, functions with template parameters should work, also functions with default parameters that call constructos and with commas on them should work.
Added a __call method for class names, to replace new_local to create instances owned by lua.
Fixed other minor bugs.
Removed the link to win32 binaries, since I aparently don't know what the hell I'm doing with a microsoft compiler ;-)

Everyone should upgrade.

23/10/03: version 1.0.2 released. This version contains major bugfixes:

Fixed bugs in gargabe collection (thanks to Christian Vogler for doing all the work :-)
namespaces and nested types are now fully supported.
Fixed other minor bugs.

Everyone should upgrade.

Downloading

The tolua++ source is freely available by http. The software provided hereunder is on an "as is" basis, and the author has no obligation to provide maintenance, support, updates, enhancements, or modifications.

Current version is 1.0.4, older versions:

tolua++-1.0.4.tar.bz2 [deb]

tolua++-1.0.3.tar.bz2

tolua++-1.0.2.tar.bz2

tolua++-1.0.tar.bz2

Documentation

You can find the manual here or under the doc/ directory on the distribution.

Instalation

tolua++ uses SCons to build. SCons is based on python, you can get a stand-alone version on their website. After you have SCons, follow this simple instructions:

Type 'scons all' to compile.

Type 'scons install'. The default install prefix is /usr/local, so if you are on a POSIX system, it should work. On other systems, you can change it with the 'prefix' option on command line.

scons prefix=/usr install

or on windows

scons "prefix=c:\Program Files\Visual C" install

Use scons -h to see a list of available command line options.

The files you need (in case you want to do a manual install) are:

bin/tolua++[.exe] - the main binary
include/tolua++.h - the header file
lib/libtolua++.a or lib/tolua++.lib - the library

See INSTALL for instructions on how to install without SCons.

tolua++ and this website are maintained by Ariel Manzur.
Contact us with any bugs, fixes, suggestions, or questions about this package.