Could I extend Corona with native code?

Question

I have some function module written in Objective-c, could i wrap the objective-C by C++, then integrate C/C++ code with Lua using toLua++, then using the lua code in Corona? Could i do that? It seems impossible...

Answer 1

Corona doesn't allow extending with native code (yet) It is in their roadmaps, and it is supposed to be implemented in coming months

Answer 2

you could make a shared library, then just require it into your code.

e.g. create mylibrary.so

then in lua

require("mylibrary")

lua will look for it in your LUA_PATH.

There are a few things I'm not sure of in corona - if it will load a shared library and you can use toLUa++. It will work fine in normal lua. You might have problems with bindings in the shared library to Cocoa - not sure, not something I've tried. I've built a .dll in windows and it worked fine - again not in corona.

Here's how to build a shared library

It seems like corona will do it - have a look here

this could be the stopper though - no shared libraries on iOS

hth