Embedding Lua in C++ #1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- C++ and Lua work very well together. Using Lua you can create modifiable programs by embedding it into your C++ program. In this video I take an introductory look at enabling data transactions between C++ and Lua.
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People that do shit like that are stupid
This has got to be the best tutorial on TH-cam for this. It's extremely well made and rich with content. I hope to eventually get the opportunity to embed Lua in a game in Unreal Engine, but this is the first step ;)
Best tutorial for this on the internet, let alone youtube. I spent hours trying to figure out how to embed lua in c++, and all that came up were bad tutorials that barely mention anything. Even the official documentation doesn't cover it very well. This video covers lots and explains it really well in 35 minutes. Although, I do wish there was a text version of this video, for quick reference.
I watched this video 2y ago but I was unable to understand it because I didn't know English. Two years later, after learning English, I'm able to fully understand the video, and that's great, because it's an amazing explication. Thanks you very much :)
2 years to get this level of fluency. Good for you, mate!
Fantastic! I was always fascinated with Lua from the day I've learned about it in WoW. Can't wait to use it in my C++ projects!
i just found this awesome channel recently. i like how you explain things simply.
i also like how you approach critiques. like who cares really if you use system("pause") for convenience. nothing is taboo in programming imo, all options should be considered. congratulations for having so many subscribers, and you deserve more.
As always: very informative and very clear. Thank you for putting so much work and thought into your tutorials!
I really appreciate what you offer
Thanks Rozzman, much appreciated!
I was modifying minetest to add custom function interfacing the clientmods without any understanding of this concept (although it worked), and now I watch this golden video explaining the basic I supposed to understand back in the day.. Good job, keep going!
ty man. You gotta make more vids explaining more stuff. Really well explained here too, I'd love to see more
I love LUA!! Only discovered it a couple of years ago and simply loved it. Great video explaining things, as usual!!. Love your channel keep it up!!
And as usual, thanks very much wowLinh! Gotta keep track of the early supporters now XD
Instantly subscribed 3 minutes into the video. Not because of the special nature of the video. But because it's clear your understanding of the topics are solid. Your explanations are direct and concise. I like that.
Nice video - I'd like to see videos on how to integrate Lua more broadly with C++, with unknown code, in the context of game add-ons/mods specifically
Thanks for this. I've been wanting to implement LUA in my game engine for quite some time, but never knew where to start, instead trying to manually create an interpreter for a simple C like language. I managed to get most things working except for converting the AST tree into actual instructions to run in my simple virtual machine which managed to melt my brain, so I gave it up for a while. Now I can scrap that and start implementing LUA. :)
Hows the game engine
hows the game engine
I'm supposed to be doing a rewrite on the render module (including implementing PBR) but I haven't touched it in a while.
@@Ruxify Oh thats cool!
damn thats badass
That's crazy how good is your explanation. I accidentally got this video in recommendations (0 at cpp, almost 0 at lua) but wow, this content is 🤯 thanks. and one more "thanks" for you logging operations with language tag👍👍👍 definitely must watch more
I've never really bothered with Lua but I'll have to check it out because this is cool. I usually use java, and my go-to solution for settings files was the reflection API because that made it easy to deal with type checking and such. You can have a class with all the fields named exactly as they are in the file and you can go through each line in the file and use reflection to get a field in the class by name and ensure that it's type matches with the type given in the file, then set the field to the value given in the file. You can't do more complicated stuff though, so I'll definitely have to take a look at this. Nice video, as always!
I've been hearing about Lua for a long time, but this video really makes me want to use it.
40k subs? Man I remember 8k, so glad you're getting the growth you deserve
Hey thanks Bill, both for the kind comment and the long time support.
This is exactly what I was looking for. You are awesome!
Oh! look mah I'm in a video :D
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Great video .. . few days ago I knew nothing about lua.... now your video gave me a great push forward... many thanks for your effort.
Can't recommend these videos enough!
My sneaky rascal:) In the second example, the table-based configuration, you omitted the error checks.
Thank you for the video.
these tutorials are so comfortably helpful.
thank you !
Thanks Klaus, Im pleased its useful to you!
You deserve a lot more subscribers. I'm gonna share your channel with my friends 😊
Thanks Giuseppe, I dont actively publicise the channel anywhere, nor do I use social media with any effort, but yes, tell your friends! XD
Excellent explanation on a very interesting topic.
Explained it so damn clearly - Thank a lot for this video!
That was an amazing lecture, thank you for sharing
Very clear and concise with excellent examples.
Your videos are so good! I wanted to learn how to embed Lua, and this video was insanely helpful. Thanks :)
Finally, lua getting the love it deserves
A masterpiece of explanation, barely possible to make big improvements on
Beautiful. More please!
Great introduction! Thank you!
BIG LIKE and thank you for the video. It' was very instructive and i learned a lot about Lua :D
Thank you so much - Really appreciate the work you have done...
This tutorial opens new galaxies for hobbyists. :) thanks again!
Hello Gurkan. It certainly does open up opportunities for hacking and playing. Loads of fun!
Your channel is a blessing
"C++ and Lua work very well together."
Couldn't agree more! Playing around with Tibia's private servers for a couple of years was very cool ;p
(and knowing that its a brazilian programming language makes it even better ;p huehue)
the best tutorial for me trying to embed Lua
Haven't watched yet, but I look forward to! I've spent the last 6 months or so writing Lua code so it'll be interesting to see it from the other side of the fence, so to speak. Lua is lovely! And extremely fast with LuaJIT, too.
Lua is awesome on its own, it gains awesomness when smashed into C++ at 100mph XD
@@javidx9 Maybe it could be fun looking at other embeddable scripting languages too? Things like Wren seem really awesome, and is purposely designed to be embedded like this, too.
I am a beginner and the truth is that you explain very well.
Thanks alot for creating this video!
have been waiting for this for soo long, thank you!
I hope its useful to you Syne!
@@javidx9 it was thanks!
I love your videos ! Keep up good work !
I appreciate that Philippe, I Will!
Excellently done. Thanks!
Thank you Daniel!
Love your work, thank you.
Still petfect guide. I like how you show stack changes
Great video! I got into Lua after playing Project Zomboid.
Thanks Mahdi!
Thank you for your tutorial! :)
This is a fun rabbit hole to fall down 😀
Yeah it is James, Ive done some crazy things with Lua and C++, they really work well as a pair
Awesome vid ! I will use it to externalise some behavior on my 3d viewer !
Finally I understand it, and I was not even trying to study it, now i can fix my WoW bots :)
Hi, I think im having familiar problem in other MMO-RPG game, any chance you can contact me?
Very nice video I really like your content.
Thanks to this, I have Lua working in Web Assembly in node.js
Great stuff Adam!
@@javidx9 wip: github.com/acronamy/wasm-lua-node-tidal if your interested. Also I'd love to see some content for a game engine port to WASM in either node or browser. Blazor, cpp, rust or C.
Grrrrr I'm so angry you don't code the exact same way as me!
Nice tutorial, thanks for the video :)
Lol Samuel, you'd be surprised what my inbox gets these days XD Thanks buddy!
I was waiting for this.
Hey Prankster, its a basic look at embedding, but I gotta start somewhere :D
Great video! Thanks)
Thanks for making this. It's way simpler than I thought it would be. I tried reading the lua documentation to figure this out, but there's no examples, just a function reference.
Hah, I was just about to write small simple game in C++ with lua scripts to learn it and boom your video, thanks. You are my most trusted C++ information. I can't wait for more advanced stuff and see implemented lua in your game.
Thanks Eminiox, yeah Im looking forward to abusing Lua in my game too!
Beautiful and interesting
Im so happy you use Lua :D, There's a game called Transformice, and you can make minigames using Lua :D
And Roblox but the syntax is a little different
@@juhabach4802 The syntax is the same, it just gets a lot of extra functions, tables, methods etc to represent the C++ environment. workspace for example is really just a table that simulates OOP. So Roblox isn't doing anything weird with their implementation. (Although they did just get a new and faster VM for Lua)
Gideros is probably a better example for a implementation of Lua but with different syntax. Gideros has a couple of community patches added onto it. Shorthand operators and easier array syntax for example.
great !! as usual its probably took me 1 week to fully understand the video :-)
Nah Raoul, you'll get this!
You actually don't need to use
for prints in lua :) Great tutorial
You sir are a great helper :)
Amazing !!
Thank you!
Great video.
However, why use float for lua_HostFunction?
To my knowledge, lua uses double as its internal representation for numbers and converting to float could lead to truncation errors.
Maybe something to mention in the next installment
You are reading my mind. I was thinking about starting with LUA for past few days.
lol, its a fun language Ales, very fast too
this makes it so clear, why game devs decide to use lua for modding support, or scripting.
lua despite its wierdness is such a great tool to have
Hi David,
again a very nice tutorial, as usual. I would like to ask you, if you can possibly make a video about the rvalue reference and move constructors in the future because, you always explained hard topics like polymorphism so good to me and I can imagine, you will also do it with that topic.
Thanks for making this awesome videos.
Greetings
Knallstock
Thanks Kiba, I'll add it to the list. I'll need to find a suitable "delivery vehicle" that can exploit using these concepts in an interesting way.
Please make a second part!!
Working source link: github.com/OneLoneCoder/videos/blob/master/OneLoneCoder_EmbeddingLua_Part1.cpp
nice one ! only one Question : what did ya do to get rid of that sorta ever neccessary stdafx.h that visual Studio puts in everytime without it complaining on that?
Nice tutorial!
Thanks Seashore!
Np as a awesome creator you diserve it!
Thank you for all your videos you are a extremely skilled programmer. I’m just curious about something, how can I use multiple different objects for the same memory slot? For example if I wanted multiple different characters inserted into my game, how can I use the same memory slots so I don’t overload and/or slow down the program?
Very easy description for lua basics! thanx )
What about userdata, and lightuserdata, with images in next tutorial? ) (or effictive share dynamic array of structs between host and lua script, in both direction)
Thanks, yes I'll be covering lightuserdata in a follow up video, I find it very useful for shifting pointers to objects around.
Great video, really easy to follow and understand.
Do you still have plans to continue this series?
Thanks! I think i might, the #1 doesnt indicate a series, its just the first c++ and lua video. That said, theres a lot more detail to go into, so yeah, probably!
Stop hacking my browser history...I was just looking for this on google a few seconds ago
Ive got to get my ideas from somewhere DB XD
What the actual fuck me too this was creepy LOL
yeah same lol
omfg same lmao idk how
How the fuck are you guys still not aware of Google tracking and spying on you? Of course it will recommend videos on its own platform based on data it gathers from web pages which has Google's bullshit embedded in some way.
Interesting. My old company embedded Lua directly into C++ for preprocessing like e.g. internationalization. So you'd first run Lua on the source code to get the final C++ source code and then you could compile the C++.
Hey javidx9, have you heard of the Lua wrapper SOL2? If you're working a lot with C++-embedded Lua i highly recommend using it (you can find it on Github, a user named ThePhD created it). I've been using it for years and it's absolutely amazing... though, embarassingly, while i've been using Sol2 for years i never learned how the direct Lua-C++ boundary works (because Sol2 abstracts that away), so i'm looking forward to more videos in this "series". :)
Hi Stefan, I have heard of it. There are numerous Lua wrappers and binders available, though Ive always enjoyed the "connection" of doing it myself. I think if I was using Lua in my professional role, I wouldnt think twice about using a wrapper.
Thanks for this well explained and very educational video. One suggestion I would have, however, is that you should wear another clip-on microphone in all your videos during the side view in which you speak visibly. The differences in tone (clear off-voice compared to ambience sound with a reverb) are a little distracting and slightly semi-professional. But this is only a very small drop of imperfection, otherwise your videos are excellent and I would be happy if even more users would watch them.
Cheers, interesting... i used to use a clip on mic, but i didnt like the indistinct vocals at all. Personal tastes i suppose. I like the cutaways to be a little break in proceedings.
great video! where can i find what libraries are included in lualibs?
Thats really awesome you could make a command line where you can enter full formulas and execute them in c++
Thats right Bluestroker, and effectively if you install lua properly, that is exactly what the Lua command prompt does, you can enter full functions and objects and tables, all valid lua code this way.
@@javidx9 thanks i did not know that lua is awesome
Id like to see some python related videos. and maybe some engineering related C++ videos!
i love lua
27:45 how could I make the c program sensitive to the text file changes?
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any chance of covering how to set up Lua with Visual Studio 2022 and Open 3D Engine? Install, debug, watch variables, autocomplete/IntelliSense, etc...
Great video btw
thanks, I studied imgui and opengl, now I can make a 3d game engine with api LUA
@javidx9 Hi, good work on this topic, have you considered what you want to for part #2, if such ever will exist?
PLLSSSS make a tutorial about cmake i cant find anything good and yours would be 10/10
lol thanks for the belief Zaspany, but I found CMake to be such a confusing mess I refused to use it. Maybe, one day... Though there are some cmake experts on the discord if you want to ask someone!
I agree that CMake is a mess mostly because of the legacy functions and the backward compatibility stuff, but it's rather a powerful tool if you are working on more than one platform or IDE, and also if you hate to go through all visual studio's properties tabs.
I would recommend this talk "Florent Castelli: Introduction to CMake" by Florent Castelli:
th-cam.com/video/jt3meXdP-QI/w-d-xo.html
This talk uses modern CMake functions, also all the code is available at github as a tutorial.
Ahhh yes.... cmake, the thing you need to use for cross-platform project/compilation support only to discover it's a f(*&! language of its own and you can no longer focus on writing your originally intended code in the first place.... I don't like cmake and the docs suck as much as cmake itself >:d
@@code-dredd For small projects there is no need to use CMake, but if you are working on a corss-platform project/library that has dependencies on other libraries, and you have more than one contributor every one with his own favorite IDE/text editor, you have two choices:
1- Maintain multiple project files, then if you add just one source file you have to update and test all these project files.
2- Use CMake and maintain only CMakeLists.txt files, then every one generates projects files for his favorite IDE/tool chain.
I would argue that for large project, it's easier to run with CMake, but if your project is small it isn't worth the hassle as you have to write some boilerplate when you can just click file-newproject and be done.
Zaspany Flegmatyk are you trying to do cmake on Linux?
I want to understand and have something clear, since I am a learner in this world of programming and that, in this tutorial it is taught clearly and "practically", how to execute Lua code or Lua itself in a C ++ program. If so please affirm me to know that I have learned something great for future project applications, thank you
i love u so much im trying to add moding support and lua is the best choice cuz games like roblox use it for moding
0:33 It's also very useful for businesses and industry to be able to modify their programs vapidly
javidx9 your channel is excellent. Please demonstrate how to draw 2d isometric tiles and sprites. There's lots of tutorials showing how to draw the artwork but I find anything about the programming of them. It would be awesome if you could cover how to calculate the movement when the view is isometric too. Thanks for everything you share!
I would like to explore isometry too at some point so it is definitely on my list of things to demonstrate.
@@javidx9 I can't wait until you do! I loved games like Diablo and Starcraft. I'll keep a look out for your videos. Thanks again
Good morning Javid, I'm following you about some month now and see that you're using C++ heavily. I'm a engineer and more focused on C, never learned C++ properly. I guess you are good in C too, so it would be nice if you can a video why you changed to C++ and who you see the advantages. There are already some videos about the languages but I like to watch what you think in this special case (C vs C++). Keep it going, your channel satisfying my brain :).
Hi Ben, I did start with C (Turbo C to be precise), but swiftly moved on to C++. It is my opinion (no doubt a controversial one) that there is literally no point in learning C anymore. Even embedded platforms have a growing number of C++ implementations available to them. The nice thing about C++ is you can pick and choose whether or not you need the Object Orientation capabilities. Again, in my opinion, these things are useful even for trivial tasks regardless of how your system design is constructed. If you can program in C++, you would find the migration to "pure" C quite trivial. BUT! And its a big but, the way C++ is presented these days is to actively avoid using C like constructions and syntax - something which I disagree with. I believe you should program in the style that solves your problem with the least resistance, and if a C like project structure is better for what you are doing, then run with it. Perhaps not necessarily the answer you were looking for, but I like to be honest. Thanks for watching though, I like to think the way I make my videos you could reproduce the core content in almost any language.
Nice video, I'm looking forward to more in this series. This Lua VM seems quite forth-like, does it have a seperate return stack?
I quote the Lua manual "Whenever Lua calls C, the called function gets a new stack, which is independent of previous stacks and of stacks of C functions that are still active."
@@DavePoo - Thanks but I meant a stack just for return addresses, not parameters. I guess not though. Forth has two stacks.
Woah LUA
Still some C++ in there as well XD
I always store file settings as text then write my own parser and read them in using regular expression or something similar, just using Lua looks a lot safer and simpler. Nice
Is lua_close really necessary if you're only doing it right before the program quits? Wouldn't the OS free everything when the program exits?
interesting language in terms of automating tasks and speeding up them.