Use system Lua, if available, to generate bindings.

Closes #1031.

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -92,6 +92,18 @@ endif()
 set(BUILD_TOOLS OFF CACHE BOOL "")
 set(SELF_TEST OFF CACHE BOOL "")
 
+# Check whether Lua 5.1 is installed locally:
+include(CheckLua.cmake)
+if(HAS_LUA_INTERPRETER AND ("${LUA_INTERPRETER_VERSION}" STREQUAL "5.1"))
+	message(STATUS "Lua 5.1 has been found in your system and will be used for the build.")
+else()
+	if (CROSSCOMPILE)
+		message(FATAL "To crosscompile, you need to have Lua 5.1 installed in your system and available in PATH.")
+	endif()
+	message(STATUS "Lua 5.1 has NOT been found in your system, the build will use its own Lua implementation.")
+endif()
+
+
 # This has to be done before any flags have been set up.
 if(${BUILD_TOOLS})
 	message("Building tools")

CheckLua.cmake

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# CheckLua.cmake
+
+# Checks whether the Lua standalone interpreter is installed on the host system
+# If found, sets HAS_LUA_INTERPRETER to 1 and LUA_INTERPRETER_VERSION to the version reported ("5.1" etc.)
+# If not found, unsets HAS_LUA_INTERPRETER
+
+
+
+
+execute_process(
+	COMMAND lua -e "io.stdout:write(string.match(_VERSION, '%d+%.%d+'))"
+	RESULT_VARIABLE LUA_EXECUTED
+	OUTPUT_VARIABLE LUA_INTERPRETER_VERSION
+)
+
+if ("${LUA_EXECUTED}" STREQUAL "0")
+	set(HAS_LUA_INTERPRETER 1)
+else()
+	unset(HAS_LUA_INTERPRETER)
+	unset(LUA_INTERPRETER_VERSION)
+endif()
+
+unset(LUA_EXECUTED)

src/Bindings/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ set (BINDING_OUTPUTS
 )
 
 set(BINDING_DEPENDENCIES
-	tolua
 	../Bindings/AllToLua.pkg
 	../Bindings/BindingsProcessor.lua
 	../Bindings/LuaFunctions.h
@@ -139,17 +138,21 @@ set(BINDING_DEPENDENCIES
 )
 
 if (NOT MSVC)
+	if (HAS_LUA_INTERPRETER)
 		ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
-		# add any new generated bindings here
 			OUTPUT ${BINDING_OUTPUTS}
-
-		# Regenerate bindings:
-		COMMAND tolua -L BindingsProcessor.lua -o Bindings.cpp -H Bindings.h AllToLua.pkg
+			COMMAND lua BindingsProcessor.lua
 			WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
-
-		# add any new generation dependencies here
 			DEPENDS ${BINDING_DEPENDENCIES}
 		)
+	else()
+		ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
+			OUTPUT ${BINDING_OUTPUTS}
+			COMMAND tolua -L BindingsProcessor.lua -o Bindings.cpp -H Bindings.h AllToLua.pkg
+			WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
+			DEPENDS ${BINDING_DEPENDENCIES} tolua
+		)
+	endif()
 endif ()
 
 set_source_files_properties(${BINDING_OUTPUTS} PROPERTIES GENERATED TRUE)

src/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -252,6 +252,10 @@ else ()
 		foreach (hdr ${FOLDER_HDRS})
 			list(APPEND SOURCE "${folder}/${hdr}")
 		endforeach(hdr)
+
+		# Include this folder's CMakeLists.txt in the project:
+		list(APPEND SOURCE "${folder}/CMakeLists.txt")
+		source_group("${folder}" FILES "${folder}/CMakeLists.txt")
 	endforeach(folder)
 
 	list(APPEND SOURCE "${SRCS}")
@@ -315,6 +319,14 @@ if (MSVC)
 		list (APPEND BINDINGS_DEPENDENCIES "Bindings/${dep}")
 	endforeach(dep)
 
+	if (HAS_LUA_INTERPRETER)
+		ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
+			OUTPUT ${BINDING_OUTPUTS}
+			COMMAND lua BindingsProcessor.lua
+			WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Bindings/
+			DEPENDS ${BINDINGS_DEPENDENCIES}
+		)
+	else()
 		ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
 			OUTPUT ${BINDING_OUTPUTS}
 
@@ -324,10 +336,9 @@ if (MSVC)
 			# Regenerate bindings:
 			COMMAND tolua -L BindingsProcessor.lua -o Bindings.cpp -H Bindings.h AllToLua.pkg
 			WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Bindings/
-
-		# add any new generation dependencies here
-		DEPENDS ${BINDINGS_DEPENDENCIES}
+			DEPENDS ${BINDINGS_DEPENDENCIES} tolua
 		)
+	endif()
 endif()
 
 add_executable(${EXECUTABLE} ${SOURCE})