LuaJIT's FFI not working?

[EpichinoM2]

I'm using ZeroBrane as an IDE. When I select Lua as the interpreter, then hit execute on the file main.lua:

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os.execute([[gcc -shared -fPIC -o libtest.so test.c]])

local ffi = require"ffi"
local ltest = ffi.load"./libtest.so"

ffi.cdef[[
int ret();
]]

print(ltest.ret())

where test.c is:

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int ret(){
    return 124;
}

Then 124 just gets printed out, as expected. But if I select LÖVE as the interpreter, I get an error:

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Error: main.lua:4: cannot load module './libtest.so': %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

This seems to be the same for 0.10.2 and 11.1 . I thought that since LÖVE already uses LuaJIT, there shouldn't be problems like this, but maybe it's ZB's fault?

[pgimeno]

Hi, welcome to the forums!

Could it be a bits mismatch? I mean in the 32 vs 64 sense. Perhaps love and lua are compiled for a different number of bits?

[arampl]

Hmm. Using *.so library on Windows looks strange for me. Shouldn't you compile as a *.dll?
Also AFAIK to load dynamic library from current directory you should call ffi.load("<your library>", true). At least on Linux.

EDIT: Sorry, my statement about ffi.load "global" flag was incorrect. It has nothing to do with loading from current directory.

[EpichinoM2]

Hi, welcome to the forums!

Could it be a bits mismatch? I mean in the 32 vs 64 sense. Perhaps love and lua are compiled for a different number of bits?

Yeah, I downloaded a 32bit version of LÖVE and it seems to be working fine now, thanks .