package.config
Lua function

package.config

Summary

Package configuration string

Prototype

package.config



Description

This is a string containing the various character used by the package manager to handle loading packages:

The default entries are:


\  --> directory seperator
;  --> path seperator
?  --> path mark
!  --> execution directory
-  --> ignore mark - ignore everything before it to build a function name



See Also ...

Topics

DOC_lua_base Lua base functions
DOC_lua_bc Lua bc (big number) functions
DOC_lua_bit Lua bit manipulation functions
DOC_lua_coroutines Lua coroutine functions
DOC_lua_debug Lua debug functions
DOC_lua_io Lua io functions
DOC_lua_math Lua math functions
DOC_lua_os Lua os functions
DOC_lua_package Lua package functions
DOC_lua_rex Lua PCRE regular expression functions
DOC_lua Lua script extensions
DOC_lua_string Lua string functions
DOC_lua_tables Lua table functions
DOC_lua_utils Lua utilities
DOC_scripting Scripting

Lua functions

LUA_package.cpath package.cpath (Search path used for loading DLLs using the "require" function)
LUA_package.loaded package.loaded (Table of loaded packages)
LUA_package.loaders package.loaders (Table of package loaders)
LUA_package.loadlib package.loadlib (Loads a dynamic link library (DLL))
LUA_package.path package.path (Search path used for loading Lua code using the "require" function)
LUA_package.preload package.preload (A table of special function loaders)
LUA_package.seeall package.seeall (Sets a metatable for the module so it can see global variables)

(Help topic: lua=package.config)

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