Setting the global LUA_PATH variable from C++/C?

Question

I\'m trying to set my global LUA_PATH variable directly from C/C++, I\'m using Lua from my iPhone applications, so my path tends does change between applications ( each iPho

Answer 1

I'm not too familiar with iPhone development, but can you set the LUA_PATH env variable before executing your application?

For example, in Linux, I could write a script that executes your binary like so:

export LUA_PATH="foo"
/path/to/executable

Windows has similar functionality with batch files.

If you really need to change it in code, I don't know how to do that short of using luaL_loadbuffer and lua_pcall to execute a "package.path = blah" command.