diff --git a/apps/plugins/lua/rocklib.c b/apps/plugins/lua/rocklib.c index 73c3851bc1..46572014f0 100644 --- a/apps/plugins/lua/rocklib.c +++ b/apps/plugins/lua/rocklib.c @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ * a C function just pushes them onto the stack, in direct order (the first result is pushed first), * and returns the number of results. Any other value in the stack below the results will be properly * discarded by Lua. Like a Lua function, a C function called by Lua can also return many results. + * + * When porting new functions, don't forget to check rocklib_aux.pl whether it automatically creates + * wrappers for the function and if so, add the function names to @forbidden_functions. This is to + * prevent namespace collisions and adding duplicate wrappers. */ diff --git a/apps/plugins/lua/rocklib_aux.pl b/apps/plugins/lua/rocklib_aux.pl index b63aaee18a..77fd08b119 100755 --- a/apps/plugins/lua/rocklib_aux.pl +++ b/apps/plugins/lua/rocklib_aux.pl @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ # ############################################################################ + +# The purpose of this script is to automatically generate Lua wrappers for +# (easily) portable C functions used in the Rockbox plugin API. +# It doesn't contain support for enums, structs or pointers (apart from char*). +# +# The output will be written to /apps/plugins/lua/rocklib_aux.c + sub trim { my $text = $_[0]; @@ -40,6 +47,9 @@ sub rand_string my @functions; my @ported_functions; +# These functions are excluded from automatically wrapping. This is useful if +# you want to manually port them to Lua. The format is a standard Perl regular +# expression. my @forbidden_functions = ('^open$', '^close$', '^read$', @@ -111,7 +121,10 @@ my $svnrev = '$Revision$'; # Print the header print <