DEPRECATED
Lua4RS is not actively developed anymore and may only receive maintanance updates. Please consider switching to the json REST api instead. You can find some examples here https://github.com/sehraf/python-retroshare
Lua4RS
A RetroShare plugin to automate and script things on RetroShare using the Lua language.
What is RetroShare?
RetroShare is a secure decentralised communication platform. http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
What is Lua4RS?
This plugin let you interact with RetroShare. It exposes most RetroShare functions to Lua and provides a trigger system. You can write scripts that react to events (from RetroShare) like a friends comes online or received a new mail. With access to most RetroShare functions, you can do the same in the Lua language as you can do in C++.
Requirements
- RetroShare v0.6 (use the 0.5 tag for RetroShare 0.5)
- at least Lua 5.2
- This also includes developer packages and everything you need on your linux distro.
- For Arch Linux install lua.
- For Ubuntu you need lua5.2_5.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb, liblua5.2-0_5.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb, liblua5.2-0-dbg_5.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb, liblua5.2-dev_5.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb, lua5.2-doc_5.2.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb (based on ASmith's report)
How to build
Simply run "qmake" (or "qmake-qt4") and "make". Then place libLua4RS.so/Lua4RS.dll in your extension folder.