LuaCOM is an add-on library to the Lua language http://www.lua.org that allows Lua programs to use and implement objects that follow the Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) specification and the ActiveX technology for property access and method calls.
LuaCOM is implemented as a C++ library, and can be statically linked to an application or loaded at runtime. LuaCOM is provided with its source code and the makefiles required to build it.
The project page and latest source code is available at:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaCom - project page https://github.com/davidm/luacom - latest source code
The easiest way to install LuaCOM is via the binary in Lua for Windows:
http://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/
You can also install LuaCOM via LuaRocks ("luarocks install luacom") or LuaDist ("luadist install luacom"). See the INSTALL file for installation details for installing from source.
LuaCOM has been tested on most versions of Windows, under both MinGW C++ and Microsoft Visual Studio C++ compilers (2005, 2008, 2010), as well as under Cygwin (1.7) with g++. It has also been compiled against libwine on Linux, although tests failed.
Send bug reports or comments to the location specified on http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaCom .
LuaCOM is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes under the MIT license. See the COPYRIGHT file for details.
LuaCOM was originally designed and implemented by Vinicius Almendra and Renato Cerqueira at Tecgraf, the Computer Graphics Technology Group of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil). Tecgraf is a laboratory of the Department of Computer Science. Later maintainers include Fabio Mascarenhas, Ignacio Burgueño and David Manura.
Renato Cerqueira
Research Staff Member
Tecgraf/PUC-Rio, Brazil
email: rcerq@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~rcerq
Vinicius Almendra Research Staff Member Tecgraf/PUC-Rio, Brazil email: almendra@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
Fabio Mascarenhas Research Staff Member Tecgraf/PUC-Rio, Brazil email: fqueiroz@tecgraf.puc-rio.br