如何将Winapi添加到Windows的Lua

Question

I've installed Lua for Windows "batteries included" 5.1.4-46. It doesn't have everything I want. I'm trying to re-write AutoIt scripts that I use on my personal PC. I can't find an easy way to access the windows registry. The WinAPI module by Steve Donovan looks like it will give me what I want. I also want to be able to retrieve file attributes in order to determine if a directory is a junction.

I realize my real issues are not WinAPI, but if I learn how to add it to Lua for Windows, I can hopefully add other Lua addons. How do I add WinAPI to the Lua installation from Lua for Windows?

Edit: I've found a binary winapi.dll for Lua 5.1 lua for windows. enter link description here

I copied it to the "Lua\\5.1\\clibs" folder. I added require("winapi") to the top of a short program. I had to exit and restart SciTE editor and now it appears to be working.

Answer 1

The third party lib will ultimately (after build) be a DLL. As long as the DLL is on your LUA_CPATH, you can require dll_name and it will load dll_name.dll. There are binary (pre-built) versions of winapi for LuaForWindows, like v1.0.1 . But you are probably better off getting the most recent release and building using one of the build scripts in root folder of .zip release . Once you have built, look for the .dll produced and move it to one of the locations on LUA_CPATH, or edit LUA_CPATH to include the folder where you want to put all your Lua extension modules.