Part 4 – Advanced Topics

By this point of the book, you will have learned all the common mechanisms to integrate Lua with C++.

In this part, you will recap what you have learned, which will also serve as a source for quick reference. You will also learn how to implement a standalone C++ module that can be loaded by Lua, as a dynamic loadable library. Then, you will learn some advanced memory management techniques and how to implement multithreading with Lua.

This part comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 9, Recapping Lua-C++ Communication Mechanisms
• Chapter 10, Managing Resources
• Chapter 11, Multithreading with Lua