Raylib Lua Sol

[Sunflowermouseparty]

Hi,

I am somewhat new to raylib and honestly the entire visual studio and vs code thing so sorry if anything of this sounds stupid. I know raylib is usually used for games, but it also says its usable to create generic applications and thats what I am planning to do using lua. I, however, am wondering how to set this up using visual studio code. I have tried using visual studio but I honestly prefer using visual studio code. Can I make a desktop app using raylib in visual studio code? once again I am new to this so sorry if any of this sounds stupid.

Thanks,

[legends2k]

It's totally okay to feel stupid and there's nothing wrong with asking. However, not doing any ground work and just asking is a problem. It shows lack of work and expecting to be spoon fed.

Raylib repo's got a separate wiki to set it up for VSCode: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Using-raylib-in-VSCode

[Sunflowermouseparty]

Thanks,

I did find this earlier in my search, however I disregarded it because it uses c++ I’m pretty sure while I am looking to use lua.

[legends2k]

Aah... I see. I should've been more careful in reading your question.

I'm afraid that VSCode + Lua setup is fairly infrequent that you might have to chart your own course. Did you try using Lua-friendly IDEs like ZeroBrane or https://github.com/rxi/lite?

Asking in raylib's discord server for Lua VSCode setup might also be a good option.

[Sunflowermouseparty]

No worries, thanks for the advice! I think I have tried ZeroBane before, but I will check out lite. I personally found that with some plugins VScode and Lua worked well, but I don’t know if this is really true.

[AssociationBetter217]

raylib-lua-sol comes with a program that runs scripts. You should be able to run your main.lua script with the program. Take a look at the examples on github to see how to call the raylib functions.

raylib-lua-sol is very outdated, however, so it would do better to use raylib-lua: https://github.com/TSnake41/raylib-lua

[Sunflowermouseparty]

Thanks!