Adapted from: https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-embedding-lua-in-c/
Just run: odin run .
Shows:
- Starting a Lua state
- Defining variables for Lua
- Doing Lua Strings in Odin
- Loading scripts
- Creating functions in Odin for Lua
- Creating a namespace in Odin for Lua and adding functions
- Calling Lua functions from Odin with and without return
- Getting errors from Lua
Don't forget the lua files.
Update 08-05-2025: Removed the dynamic allocations, since they are not needed. Added tests. Trying to do metatables, but the fields of the tables are not recognized. Update 05-21-2026 : Removed metatables. Added loafile example.