Gather C structs tagged with attribute((packed)) and enum definitions into a Lua data structure. This allows conversion between binary blobs and Lua tables using functions parse-bin.lua provides, useful for C applications with an embedded Lua interpreter.

This tool is a thin wrapper around the awesome Language.C library: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/language-c

BUILD

( Instructions for Debian )

Optionally add ~/.cabal/bin to your search path. This is where

cabal will install Haskell binaries, including the updated version

of cabal itself.

apt-get install cabal-install haskell-platform cabal update cabal install cabal-install cabal install pretty-show cabal install happy cabal install language-c

tar xf packed_lua.tar.gz cd packed_lua

The 2 commands below also appear in the Makefile.

cabal configure cabal build

At this point the binary will be in the local directory:

dist/build/packed-lua/packed-lua

Optionally install it to ~/.cabal/bin using:

cabal install

USAGE

Provide the (possibly prepocessed) C file as a first argument and gather the Lua output on stdout, i.e:

packed_lua structs.c >sym.lua