LuaVM

Lua Virtual Machine for Lua so you can Lua while you Lua

Usage

To use LuaVM, first you must meet all the requirements:

• Lua 5.1 and 5.2 are the only versions supported. Unoffical versions of Lua (like LuaJIT, LuaJ, etc.) are not fully supported.
• A way to generate Lua 5.1 valid bytecode (an ASM suite is in the works, a Lua to bytecode compiler is coming)

Then, you must require the modules you need (sorry for the global namespace injections):

require("luavm.bytecode")
require("luavm.vm[your version here, 51 or 52]")

After that, simply call vm.lua[your version here, like 51 or 52].run(bytecode.load([bytecode here]))

Documentation

bytecode.load(bytecode)

Loads valid Lua 5.1 or 5.2 bytecode (as a string). Returns a table.

bytecode.save(bytecode)

Redumps bytecode tables created from bytecode.new or bytecode.load. Returns a string.

vm.run(bytecode, arguments, upvalues, globals, hook)

Starts running bytecode. Arguments, Upvalues, Globals, and Hooks are optional. Returns whatever the emulated bytecode returns. Arguments, upvalues, and globals must be a table. Hook must be a function, it is called every single instruction.