This issue serves for discussion on integrating LuaRocks with Lua.NET.

Proposal

lua_State should follow the IDisposable pattern to use the using keyword.

Concerns

Undefined Behavior occurs when lua_close(L) closes a lua_State a second time and can result in application crashes.

Implementation

To mitigate the undefined behavior resulting from lua_close(L)ing a lua_State twice, we can set Handle to 0 in each Lua API's lua_close(L) after the call to native lua_close(L). Further, if lua_close(L) knows how to handle 0 we do not need to do anything further; otherwise we need to also check if the Handle is 0 before calling the native. This ensures that Handle == 0 to detect if the lua_State is closed or not when implementing the IDisposable pattern.

Benefits

Clean integration with C#'s using feature when quickly spinning up a lua_State to process something. Capturing the lua_State variable in a scope to avoid leaking lua_State's. Unfortunately, there's no way to exit from a using statement other than a goto so there is an additional scope; which isn't a problem depending on design.

using (lua_State L = luaL_newstate())
{
    if (L != 0)
    {
        // Do Lua stuff
    }
}

Its time we support Linux (I will add x86_64 support)!

If you have a Linux on ARM64 cpu, your assistance is needed (Read Below)!

This is how you download and build lua.

curl -L -R -O https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-all.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-all.tar.gz
cd lua-all
make -j $(nproc) all

Each sub folder in lua-all will have a .so file associated inside of it resulting from the build.

This is how you download and build luajit.

git clone https://luajit.org/git/luajit.git
cd luajit
make -j $(nproc) all

Collect each minor versions highest patch number (5.4.6, 5.3.6, 5.2.4, 5.1.5) and rename the so appropriately (lua546.so, lua536.so, lua524.so lua515.so) For luajit, retain the name of lua51.so.

Move these so's to runtimes/linux-arm64/native. example About RIDs

When attempting to do

int status = lua_pcall(L, 0, 0, 0);
switch (status)
{
    case LUA_ERRRUN:
        break;
}

LUA_ERRRUN is required to be a constant. Therefore, this is going to error out. There will be no downsides to converting a lot of variables from static to const.

Compilation for Lua is important in the ecosystem. This library aims to expose Lua it should very well expose compiling.

Taking suggestions for implementation.

This thread serves as a Lua version request.

If someone wants to take a crack at making a website, go for it.

If you have a Mac and a compiler you can help!

This repo needs Lua built for Mac and M1 Mac.

This is how you download and build lua.

curl -L -R -O https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-all.tar.gz
tar zxf lua-all.tar.gz
cd lua-all
make -j $(nproc) all

Each sub folder in lua-all will have a .dylib file associated inside of it resulting from the build.

This is how you download and build luajit.

git clone https://luajit.org/git/luajit.git
cd luajit
make -j $(nproc) all

Collect each minor versions highest patch number (5.4.6, 5.3.6, 5.2.4, 5.1.5) and rename the dylib appropriately (lua546.dylib, lua536.dylib, lua524.dylib, lua515.dylib) For luajit, retain the name of lua51.dylib.

Move these dylibs to runtimes/osx-x64/native for non M1 chip. Move these dylibs to runtimes/osx-arm64/native for the M1 chip. example About RIDs

Optional: use your expertise to also bring support for ios-arm64!

It would be nice for all the functions to have in-depth explanations of what they do as per the lua reference manual.
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#lua_pushnil

For example,

lua_pushnil

Pushes a nil value onto the stack. 
[-0, +1, –] 

http://luajit.org/running.html
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html

Hello, you know how we can debug lua code step by setp?

Function potentially doesn't work due to suspected wrong declaration. Needs testing.

This repo needs Lua built for Android.

Download lua-all
Download luajit git clone https://luajit.org/git/luajit.git

I am not sure how to build these for Android.

Collect each minor versions highest patch number (5.4.6, 5.3.6, 5.2.4, 5.1.5) and rename the dynamic library appropriately (lua546, lua536, lua524, lua515) For luajit, retain the name of lua51.

Move these dynamic libraries to runtimes/android-arm64/native. example About RIDs

I think the debug API has wrong declarations in which ref is not needed to be used.

lua_getinfo