flutter_lualike

Flutter integration for lualike.

This package gives you two things:

1. A Flutter asset-bundle filesystem backend for require(), dofile(), and io.open().
2. A hooks re-export so Flutter projects can write build hooks without depending on lualike_hooks directly.

What it solves

Use flutter_lualike when you want Lua scripts to live inside a Flutter app, loaded from assets, while still using the same lualike runtime on Dart and Flutter.

Install

dependencies:
  flutter_lualike:
    path: path/to/flutter_lualike

Runtime setup

Configure lualike to read from Flutter assets:

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
import 'package:flutter_lualike/flutter_lualike.dart';

await useAssetBundle(rootBundle, assetRoot: 'build/lua');

After that, require('hello') and dofile('script.lua') resolve from the asset bundle.

Build hooks

flutter_lualike re-exports lualike_hooks, so your hook/build.dart can be:

import 'package:hooks/hooks.dart';
import 'package:flutter_lualike/hooks.dart';

void main(List<String> args) async {
  await build(args, (input, output) async {
    final builder = LuaBuilder(
      sources: ['assets/lua/'],
      mode: CompileMode.bytecode,
    );
    await builder.run(input: input, output: output, logger: null);
  });
}

Asset layout

A typical Flutter project looks like this:

my_app/
  assets/
    lua/
      hello.lua
  hook/
    build.dart
  lib/
    main.dart
  pubspec.yaml

And pubspec.yaml should include the compiled output:

flutter:
  assets:
    - build/lua/

Modes

The re-exported hooks API supports:

• CompileMode.bytecode -- compile to bytecode files in build/lua/
• CompileMode.dartSource -- generate Dart source files
• CompileMode.dartEmbed -- generate Dart files with embedded bytecode bytes

Example

See example/ for a full Flutter app using flutter_lualike with hooks and runtime execution.