Create a binary for my lua scripts

[Arjun Jain]

Hi all,

I am in a position where I want a 3d party to be able to use my
lua/torch api's (along with some custom torch lua only modules),
however I do not want to give him access to my source code. What is my
best option?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best,
Arjun

[smth chntla]

Arjun,

I wrote a small page here:

https://github.com/soumith/torch-ship-binaries
This slightly changes if you want android/iOS binaries, but this works for Linux or OSX.

Let me paste the contents here for visibility:

1) Create a self-contained torch install:

git clone https://github.com/soumith/torch-distro.git
cd torch-distro
install.sh

(you can add and remove packages from install.sh, i've added what I usually need all the time).

2) Convert your lua scripts into bytecode:

luajit -b [script.lua] [script.out]

More doc here: http://luajit.org/running.html

3) Place the byte-code scripts in torch-distro/myscripts

4) Create a shell script in the root of torch-distro that sets the proper environment for your end-user, and passes the commandline options into your main lua script: torch-distro/run.sh

#!/bin/bash
currdir=`dirname $0`
currdir=$(cd "$currdir" && pwd)
export PATH=$currdir/install/bin/$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$currdir/install/lib/$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$currdir/install/lib/$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
$currdir/install/bin/luajit myscripts/main.lua $*

5) Zip it and ship it, ask your thirdparty to unzip and start the program with "run.sh" All the commandline options will be passed to the entry lua script, so you can have command-line options using torch.CmdLine or penlight etc.

[soumith]

fixed some typos at the original URL.

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[Jonathan Tompson]

Wow buddy! You have a package for everything. This I s awesome!

One question though... do you have a package to make me breakfast in the morning? Or is that not open source yet?

Sent from my iPhone. Expect mistakes.

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[Arjun Jain]

Wow! This is perfect, thank you very much Soumith! Exactly what I
want. You are the best! :-)

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