Using LuaSocket in Gideros

ar2rsawseen

Hello all,

so here is my tutorial explaining how to use different protocols in LuaSocket. Examples on how to create clients and servers and even discovering devices.

http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Using-LuaSocket-in-Gideros

Hope everything is explained, if there are any questions or mistakes feel free to ask or correct

And if you liked it, help me dzone it:
http://www.dzone.com/links/appcodingeasycom_using_luasocket_in_gideros.html

techdojo

That's a really useful guide - thanks!

atilim

It's great, thank you.

BBurgess66

seems my 'LuaSockets' is not 'installed'. I keep getting the following after copying the *.lua files from the plug-in / src directory into my project/includes directory:

includes/db.lua:14: module './includes/socket.lua' not found:
no field package.preload['./includes/socket.lua']
no file './//includes/socket/lua.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1///includes/socket/lua.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1///includes/socket/lua/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1///includes/socket/lua.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1///includes/socket/lua/init.lua'
no file './//includes/socket/lua.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1///includes/socket/lua.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
no file './.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
stack traceback:

ar2rsawseen

@BBurgess66 try not copying but adding the very file that is at plugins location (it probably has other dependencies there)