Lua Module Lua Socket

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LuaSocket binary module

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This is version 1.4 of the [LuaSocket] library, compiled as a module for use with a Lua40 interpreter with loadmodule support. See LuaBinaryModules to download a Lua interpreter with loadmodule.

VersionNotice: This page pertains to an earlier version of Lua (4.0 and 5.0beta) using a loadmodule extension. Lua 5.1 uses package.loadlib and require. Lua 5.0 uses loadlib.)

Quick hint: you can run the LuaSocket examples like so:

    lua -e 'assert(loadmodule("socket"))' -f check_links.lua http://www.lua-users.org

Downloads

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Here's a patch against luasocket-1.4, to add the loadmodule hooks.

[luasocket-1.4-loadmodule.patch]

Commandline to compile under linux:

gcc -DDLL_EXPORT='' -shared -o libluasocket.so luasocket.c -O2 -I../lua-4.0.1-loadmodule/include -L../lua-4.0.1-loadmodule/lib -llua-4.0 -llualib-4.0

binaries

[GNU/Linux-i386 .so] | [Win32 DLL]

users of other platforms: please contribute ports!