requiring c module crashes love

[jaschutte]

Hello everyone, hope you are having a lovely day.

Recently I've been trying to get to expose c functions to lua. Which had some problems and I'm still testing around but I managed to make it work. Atleast it works in regular 5.1 lua, but everytime I try to require the file into main.lua and execute main.lua with love it crashes. No error at all it just closes itself.
main.lua

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local mylib
print(pcall(function() mylib = require("mylib") end)) --prints nothing

function love.draw()
    love.graphics.rectangle("fill",0,0,200,200)
end

mod.c

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#include "lua.h"
#include "lauxlib.h"
#include "lualib.h"

static int c_swap (lua_State *L) {
    double arg1 = luaL_checknumber (L, 1);
    double arg2 = luaL_checknumber (L, 2);

    lua_pushnumber(L, arg2);
    lua_pushnumber(L, arg1);

    return 2;
}

static const struct luaL_Reg func[] = {
      {"c_swap", c_swap},
      {NULL, NULL}
    };

__declspec(dllexport) int luaopen_mylib (lua_State *L){
    luaL_register(L, "mylib", func);
    return 1;
}

I compile mod.c into mylib.dll using the following command:

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gcc mod.c -shared -o mylib.dll -fPIC  -llua

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When I require the dll with regular lua it works perfectly fine. I can all mylib.c_swap(1,2) and it'll work but in love it shutsdown the program instantly. I've tried searching for awnsers on the internet but I couldn't find anything. I'm completely lost on this one.

lua 5.1 and löve are 32 bit. Mingw is also 32 bit.
All of the files are in the same directory.

[pgimeno]

Maybe try with FFI? It may also have the additional benefit of not slowing down your program.

[raidho36]

luaL_register function might be removed from LuaJIT as it's 5.1 baseline with 5.2 features.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/CompatibilityWithLuaFive

[monolifed]

You are linking against lua and love uses luajit
Edit: It seems to be a little different for windows: http://lua-users.org/wiki/BuildingModules

[dwilso]

Well, this is crazy. I recently wrote a neural network library in C and ported it to standard Lua, expecting to be able to simply require it with Love2D. I was having the exact same problem as OP, and dug through the internet without success. I came to create a forum post of my own and saw this thread.

ingsoc451's solution works perfectly (except you need the -lluajit gcc flag). I'm an OSX user using a .so library (as opposed to OP using a Windows .dll). I compiled with:

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gcc -shared -fpic -I/usr/local/include/luajit-2.0 -lluajit -o nnlib.so cailib/*.c

then simply required the library with:

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local NeuralNetwork = require "nnlib" 

and it's now working as expected.