Globals

Convenient shorthands for some frequently-used functionality

Status

Experimental: Functionality may change for any reason, without semantic versioning guarantees

Availability

All functions are made available in the global environment and can be accessed directly:

printf("Hello %s", "world") -- Implied global lookup: _G.printf

Constants

EVO_VERSION

The build version embedded into the native C++ runtime at compile time, given as a semantic version string in git describe format.

STATIC_FFI_EXPORTS

A table containing the low-level APIs bound to the Lua environment via LuaJIT's foreign function interface. For details, see this page.

You probably don't need to access these manually unless you want to know which libraries are embedded using this method:

dump-ffi-exports.lua

dump(STATIC_FFI_EXPORTS)

-- Result:
{
        webview = <userdata 1>
}

Keep in mind that FFI libraries are generally memory-unsafe, so prefer using the high-level interfaces provided if possible.

Functions

cast

Alias for ffi.cast(...).

cdef

Alias for ffi.cdef(...).

define

Alias for ffi.cdef(...).

describe

Alias for bdd.describe(...).

dump

Alias for debug.dump(...).

extend

Sets up the metatable of child so that it acts as an instance of parent (in terms of object-oriented programming).

format

Alias for string.format(...).

it

Alias for bdd.it(...).

new

Alias for ffi.new(...).

printf

Alias for print(string.format(...)).

sizeof

Alias for ffi.sizeof(...).

typeof

Alias for ffi.typeof(...).

Tables

buffer

Alias for string.buffer (LuaJIT builtin).

path

Alias for the preloaded path library.

Changelog

Version	What happened?
v0.0.1	Initial release