I finally managed to get LuaJava to build on OSX and now I am running into trouble using it in Eclipse. I put the jnilib in my system path and when I go to the directory where I built it I can run the Console like this:
$ java -cp "luajava-1.1.jar" org.keplerproject.luajava.Console
API Lua Java - console mode.
> print("Hello World!")
Hello World!
> exit
$
So I'm guessing that means that it is built and installed correctly. I added the jar to my project using the "Add External Jar" in the Java Build Path property window. But when I try to use it I get this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ScriptEngineSample
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ScriptEngineSample
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Here is all of my code:
LuaWarrior.java
public class LuaWarrior
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
new Game().start();
}
}
Game.java
import org.keplerproject.luajava.LuaState;
import org.keplerproject.luajava.LuaStateFactory;
public class Game
{
private LuaState _lua;
public Game()
{
_lua = LuaStateFactory.newLuaState();
_lua.openLibs();
}
public void start()
{
_lua.LdoFile("scripts/hello.lua");
}
}
It turns out that it doesn't need to be in the system path, but is needs to be in the JVM Library folder.
/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Libraries/