ds84182 / LuaVM

Lua Virtual Machine (and various tools) for Lua so you can Lua while you Lua

LuaVM

Lua Virtual Machine for Lua so you can Lua while you Lua

Usage

To use LuaVM, first you must meet all the requirements:

• Lua 5.1 and 5.2 are the only versions supported. Unoffical versions of Lua (like LuaJIT, LuaJ, etc.) are not fully supported.
• A way to generate Lua 5.1 valid bytecode (an ASM suite is in the works, a Lua to bytecode compiler is coming)

Then, you must require the modules you need (sorry for the global namespace injections):

require("luavm.bytecode")
require("luavm.vm[your version here, 51 or 52]")

After that, simply call vm.lua[your version here, like 51 or 52].run(bytecode.load([bytecode here]))

Documentation

bytecode.load(bytecode)

Loads valid Lua 5.1 or 5.2 bytecode (as a string). Returns a table.

bytecode.save(bytecode)

Redumps bytecode tables created from bytecode.new or bytecode.load. Returns a string.

vm.run(bytecode, arguments, upvalues, globals, hook)

Starts running bytecode. Arguments, Upvalues, Globals, and Hooks are optional. Returns whatever the emulated bytecode returns. Arguments, upvalues, and globals must be a table. Hook must be a function, it is called every single instruction.