Post subject: Luasockets in BizHawk
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I'm trying to use luasockets in BizHawk 1.11.8.2 and no matter what I try, I can't get it to work. I even saw this answer on stack exchange that says that it's built-in now, but offered no explanation on how to leverage it. Anyone have any idea?
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Thanks to everyone that answered, but I still don't understand
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Doing a quick search, I doubt there's anything done about luasockets at the moment that couldn't be done directly in lua. As zeromus said on stackoverflow+feos, you can checkup this project(thread). This project should support local connection and exchange of messages. If you need help with something in particular, we can probably help, but please give us more details about what you are trying to do.
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All the examples for luasockets start with "socket = require('socket')" and I always get some sort of error. Whether it's "can't find socket" or "loop or previous error loading module 'socket'", I can't work with it until I get that assignment to work. I think that once I get local socket assigned, the rest I can figure out.
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Try the following steps: -Download the latest release of BizHawk, unzip the archive somewhere -Delete the "Lua" folder bundled with BizHawk, so we can avoid confusion about the location of the socket folder -Create a "socket" folder next to EmuHawk.exe with the following files inside. You can also get these files from this archive. -Add lua5.1.dll next to EmuHawk.exe. You can also get this file from "Lua 5.1 for Windows"(you can get an installer here). -Create a lua script "test_lua_socket.lua" and put it next to EmuHawk.exe with the following code:
Language: lua

package.cpath = ";./?.dll;" package.path = ";./socket/?.lua;" socket = require('socket') print(_G.socket) print("luasocket is loaded!")
-Start EmuHawk.exe -Drag "test_lua_socket.lua" inside the BizHawk instance. At this point, it should work.
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It sure does. Thank you. That should be enough to get me going.