Using Lua With Other Languages

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• [The Lua 5.1 Reference Manual: The Application Program Interface] (5.1) describes Lua's native C API for calling Lua from C and vice-versa.
• The command-line/pipe interface (e.g. Lua os.execute/io.popen) provides one of the simplest methods for interfacing between languages in different processes. Example: lua -e 'print [[print "hello"]]' | lua -
• "Code wrappers" in LuaAddons wrap the C API to simplify the binding to various languages, including C/C++. See also BindingCodeToLua.
• "Calling interfaces" in LibrariesAndBindings allow calling Lua from other languages and calling other languages from Lua, binding at run-time.
• LibrariesAndBindings links to various communication and remote procedure protocols such as XML-RPC, CGI/HTTP, COM, CORBA, and socket interfaces. These are typically out-of-process calls.
• "Alternative implementations of Lua" in LuaAddons allow compiling Lua down to other virtual machines for running Lua natively on other platforms.

Related sites

These are equivalent pages for other languages that bind to Lua.

• [IntegratingPythonWithOtherLanguages]
• [Tcl and other languages]
• [UsingRubyWithOtherLanguages] (at archive.org)