Load Lua-files by relative path

Question

If I have a file structure like this:

./main.lua
./mylib/mylib.lua
./mylib/mylib-utils.lua
./mylib/mylib-helpers.lua
./mylib/mylib-other-stuff.lua
         


        

Answer 1

You can do

package.path = './mylib/?.lua;' .. package.path

Or

local oldreq = require
local require = function(s) return oldreq('mylib.' .. s) end

Then

-- do all the requires
require('mylib-utils')
require('mylib-helpers')
require('mylib-other-stuff')

-- and optionally restore the old require, if you did it the second way
require = oldreq