Is it possible to consume rlua bin from another lua file ?

[Roms1383]

Hello 👋 I'm sorry it's probably a beginner question but is it possible to consume what rlua generated from an external .lua file, e.g. with require ?
I've followed the guided tour but still wonder.

[jugglerchris]

Hi and welcome!

Do you mean use rlua to make a DLL/SO that can be imported from another Lua interpreter?
If so that's not currently possible. However since rlua includes the full Lua interpreter, you can make a Rust binary using rlua, which acts just the same as the normal lua interpreter but has extra libraries built in.

Chris

[Roms1383]

Hmmm I'm new to Lua so the reply just made me more confused😅 sorry I meant e.g. I would like to use Rust in game modding, where usually Lua prevails. So, since Rust isn't supported as a language in this ecosystem yet, I was wondering if e.g. I can consume code written in Rust with rlua from a .lua file.

[jugglerchris]

Ah, I see. This isn't currently possible with rlua - however I believe that's supported by mlua, which was forked from rlua. (I don't have any experience of using it).

[Roms1383]

Oh ok! Thanks a lot for your answers 😀