Getting Your C++ Project Lua-Ready
Throughout the course of this book, you will learn how to integrate Lua into your C++ projects. Each chapter will be based on the knowledge learned from the previous chapters. This chapter teaches you how to prepare a C++ project in which to integrate Lua and introduces the tools used in this book so that you can understand the examples better. If you already know how to use some of the tools, please feel free to skip those sections. If not, feel free to do a deeper dive after going through this chapter.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Compiling the Lua source code
- Building a C++ project with the Lua library
- Building a C++ project with the Lua source code
- Executing a simple Lua script
- Other toolchain options
