Calling lua functions from .lua's using handles?

Question

I\'m working on a small project trying to integrate lua with c++. My problem however is as follows:

I have multiple lua scripts, lets call them s1.lua s2.lua and s3.

Answer 1

This is effectively what gwell proposed using the C API:

#include 

#include "lua.h"

static void
executescript(lua_State *L, const char *filename, const char *function)
{
    /* retrieve the environment from the resgistry */
    lua_getfield(L, LUA_REGISTRYINDEX, filename);

    /* get the desired function from the environment */
    lua_getfield(L, -1, function);

    return lua_call(L, 0, 0);
}

static void
loadscript(lua_State *L, const char *filename)
{
    /* load the lua script into memory */
    luaL_loadfile(L, filename);

    /* create a new function environment and store it in the registry */
    lua_createtable(L, 0, 1);
    lua_getglobal(L, "print");
    lua_setfield(L, -2, "print");
    lua_pushvalue(L, -1);
    lua_setfield(L, LUA_REGISTRYINDEX, filename);

    /* set the environment for the loaded script and execute it */
    lua_setfenv(L, -2);
    lua_call(L, 0, 0);

    /* run the script initialization function */
    executescript(L, filename, "init");
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    lua_State *L;
    int env1, env2;

    L = (lua_State *) luaL_newstate();
    luaL_openlibs(L);

    loadscript(L, "test1.lua");
    loadscript(L, "test2.lua");

    executescript(L, "test1.lua", "run");
    executescript(L, "test2.lua", "run");
    executescript(L, "test2.lua", "run");
    executescript(L, "test1.lua", "run");

    return 0;
}

Test scripts:

-- test1.lua
function init() output = 'test1' end
function run() print(output) end

-- test2.lua
function init() output = 'test2' end
function run() print(output) end

Output:

test1
test2
test2
test1

I omitted all error handling for brevity, but you'll want to check the return value of luaL_loadfile and use lua_pcall instead of lua_call.