Adding Lua Support BACK into dolphin!

[Dantarion]

So, I did some google searching on Dolphin's LUA Support, and found that it DID exist at some point, but now doesn't.

https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=3287&can=1&q=lua


This page states that while there WAS lua support, it was taken away because Dolphin wasn't mature enough, and that it wasnt being used by many people.

I would like to add this feature back.

The ability to automate the process of setting breakpoints, reading registers, and setting breakpoints will enable people to extend games with new features that will allow some cool things to be developed!

I see that someone is working on a branch...
https://code.google.com/r/rachelbryk-lua-scripting/source/browse


And I will be looking at this branch when developing my own build (I haven't had a chance to really go at it so I am not sure how hacky this branch is so far)

What is the current official stance on Lua Scripting support, and is this a feature that would gladly be accepted in trunk?


I have some amazing ideas for my portfolio that I would like to use this for

[neobrain]

You should probably come to IRC (#dolphin-emu on freenode) and ask there instead. While your question is development related, many devs aren't active on the forums at all.

[RachelB]

Quote:I see that someone is working on a branch...

I'm not really working on that. I just made it compile, and got just enough working so one person could kind of use it. As is, all of my changes were a hack, i disabled most things that needed to be updated instead of fixing them, and it crashes when not run in a debugger.

Lua would be really really great to have, but i think it'd be best to rewrite it, rather than use any of the old code. It was removed for a reason.

[Dantarion]

Thanks for the feedback!

[delroth]

My opinion on the matter: nothing like lua support should be merged until libdolphin is done. And the libdolphin implementation work won't start before 4.0 is released.

When libdolphin will be done, exporting the API to Lua should be trivial (if we don't want to write wrappers ourselves, SWIG will do a fine job). Then it's just a matter of having the API export whatever is needed.

[Dantarion]

So I guess for now I will just work on getting all the features I want working, and ill take a look at the libdolphin API as it develops so I can make sure things will be possible when its finished

[delroth]

If you just want debugger support, Dolphin has USBGecko emulation support and you should be able to run a debugger inside Dolphin. Parlane has also been working on a gdbstub that allows Dolphin to communicate with an external debugger to debug what's currently running inside of the emulator - I'm not sure what the state of this feature is, I think it was merged in wii-network at some point.

[King Dude]

I'm all for Lua being added to Dolphin.