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I am seeing this under mac os:

mame 0.268
Copyright (C) Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team

Lua 5.4
Copyright (C) Lua.org, PUC-Rio

[MAME]> dofile("/Users/user_name/proj/ast/luaclient.lua")
error: error loading module 'socket.core' from file '/Users/user_name/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.4/socket/core.so':
dynamic libraries not enabled; check your Lua installation

Is there a recommended method by which mame can be compiled so that the Lua interpreter allows the use of dynamic libraries? I am willing to assume the security risks for my use case.

Beefy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:25 pm Is there a recommended method by which mame can be compiled so that the Lua interpreter allows the use of dynamic libraries? I am willing to assume the security risks for my use case.

I do not know if this is possible, but am wondering what it is that you are trying to achieve here ?

Communicate via socket from MAME Lua interpreter to another process, a Python server. I got a simple model working. It's a Lua client and a Python server communicating under Mac OS. Both Lua and Python are installed locally. Now that it works, I want to execute the Lua code from the MAME interpreter, but the interpreter is forbidding the loading of libraries (dynamic libraries). In this case, it's complaining about a require statement for Luasocket.

What do you think? Is there another way?

Compiling using

CFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_MACOSX". (or pick your particular OS)

... will allow the use of dynamic libraries.