tolua++5.1(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so tolua++5.1 — it's the lua language binding development helper program, bestie. that's the whole vibe. it helps you build stuff. for Lua. with tolua++. slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tolua++5.1 [ options ] input_file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

tolua++5.1 is a program that literally exists to help you build applications using the tolua++5.1 library for the Lua scripting language. that's it. that's the job. no cap. 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

the command line options are, and I need you to read all of them because I'm not letting you skip:

• -v — print version information. short and iconic. ✨
• -o file — set the output file. default is stdout, because of course it is. 💖
• -H file — create an include file. yes, capital H, don't @ me.
• -n name — set the package name. default is the input file root name. so if you don't say anything, it just steals the name from your input file. main character energy honestly. 👑
• -p — parse only. that's the whole thing. no printing, no nothing.
• -P — parse AND print structure information. capital P, for debugging. 🔥
• -S — disable support for c++ strings. bye bye strings.
• -1 — subtract 1 to operator[] index, for compatibility with tolua5. yes the flag is literally the number one. 💀
• -L file — run a lua file (with dofile()) before doing anything. pre-game ritual. 🌸
• -D — disable automatic exporting of destructors for classes that have constructors, for compatibility with tolua5.
• -W — disable warnings for unsupported features, for compatibility with tolua5.
• -C — disable cleanup of included lua code, for easier debugging. (that lua code is staying right where it is, bestie 🎀)
• -E value[=value] — add extra values to the luastate.
• -t — export a list of types associates with the C++ typeid name. (the original page spells it "asociates" and I'm keeping that energy fr fr 🍓)
• -q — don't print warnings to the console. quiet queen. 🤫
• -h — print usage information.

okay important one: should the input file be omitted, stdin is assumed; and in that case, the package name must be explicitly set. no guessing. not optional. periodt. 💅

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

this manual page was originally written by Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> and Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. it was then expanded for tolua++5.1 by Cesare Tirabassi <norsetto@ubuntu.com> for the Ubuntu GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout to the icons who wrote the docs 🫶👑

and that's a wrap on tolua++5.1(1) from Tolua++, dated 20 Jul 2009. literally vintage, still serving. go forth and bind those lua languages bestie, ily, mwah 💖💅✨