Lua sockets - missing documentation link

[Djeez]

Hi,

The Lua Plug-ins manual (pdf) has a link referring to a solution for a 64 bits socket library solution. However, this link does not work for me and searching in the User Contribution section for "socket" does not help. Can you please provide a link to the solution for using sockets in 64 bit FSUIPC?

Thanks!

Emile van Gerwen.

[John Dowson]

Try this thread: 

I think there are some links or dlls posted there, and was reported as working.

The manual and FAQ entry are both out-of-date and need revising. It would be good if you could make some notes trying to get this work, and maybe write an updated FAQ entry for other users (solution should be valid for FSUIPC5, 6 & 7). Here's the current one, which needs updating/replacing: 

 

John

 

[Djeez]

21 hours ago, John Dowson said:

Try this thread: 

[...]

I think there are some links or dlls posted there, and was reported as working.

Hi John,

After hours of fiddling with different socket distributions and dll replacing, I got it to work. In the end the solution turned out to be blatantly simple: put the socket.lua from the LuaSocket project for Lua 5.1 in the FSUIPC7/lua folder. That's all! The only reason I think this can work is that after the long discussion you referred to, Pete linked the socket core library into FSUIPC. I don't see how this could work otherwise. Anyway, it would be good if someone could verify this solution to see that indeed I do not have some hidden dependency on my system after all the fiddling.

Regards,

-Emile.

[John Dowson]

Hi Emile,

22 hours ago, Djeez said:

In the end the solution turned out to be blatantly simple: put the socket.lua from the LuaSocket project for Lua 5.1 in the FSUIPC7/lua folder. That's all!

Ok, that's good to know. I'll verify this when I get  a chance and update the FAQ entry accordingly.

John

[John Dowson]

Hi Emile,

first, sorry for the delay with this, but I would like to clarify this now....

On 1/24/2021 at 12:17 PM, Djeez said:

After hours of fiddling with different socket distributions and dll replacing, I got it to work. In the end the solution turned out to be blatantly simple: put the socket.lua from the LuaSocket project for Lua 5.1 in the FSUIPC7/lua folder. That's all! The only reason I think this can work is that after the long discussion you referred to, Pete linked the socket core library into FSUIPC. I don't see how this could work otherwise. Anyway, it would be good if someone could verify this solution to see that indeed I do not have some hidden dependency on my system after all the fiddling.

Do you have a link to the socket.lua you refer to (or attach if allowed)? I can only find this and there is no socket.lua: http://files.luaforge.net/releases/luasocket/luasocket/luasocket-2.0.2
 

Thanks,

John

 

Later: the LuaSocket project page at LuaForge seems to be down or gone...

Edited May 20, 2021 by John Dowson
Later added

[John Dowson]

Sorry, ignore that - it was in the package downloaded from that link provided.

And yes, it does seem to just work by adding the socket.lua to your FSUIPC installation folder. I will update the FAQ entry accordingly.

Thanks,

John