Purpose

Turn a Lua script into an executable. Inspired by Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo's srlua.

Further scripts loaded with dofile or require will not be embedded, but can still be found if LUA_PATH or LUA_CPATH are set appropriately.

How to use

srlua add.lua                   Will create ./add.exe (Windows) or ./add (Linux), embedding add.lua.
./add 21 22                     Will execute the embedded script, passing the arguments.

srlua add.lua other.exe         Will create ./other.exe instead.

luac -o temp add.lua
srlua temp add.exe              Will embed bytecode, error messages still refer to the original script.
./add a b
add.lua:5: arg1 ('a') is not a number!
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'error'
        add.lua:5: in main chunk

Improvements over the original

• No need for a second executable, srlua is a standalone solution.
• Improved error messages from embedded scripts by embedding the script name along with its content.
• Rewritten in C++
• Windows build

How to build

on Windows

Edit buildsys/VS17/Lua.props    Set AdditionalIncludeDirectories, AdditionalDependencies
                                and AdditionalLibraryDirectories according to your
                                Lua-Installation.
Open buildsys/VS17/SRLua.sln    Build Configuration Release/32bit
                                Release/32 bits will be built in repository root.

or on Linux

Use Makefile

make                            Will make srlua and compile add.lua to ./add