---
name: "tolua++5.1"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtolua++5.1-dev"
version: "1.0.93-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tolua++5.1"
---

# tolua++5.1(1)

lua language binding development helper program

## NAME

tolua++5.1 - lua language binding development helper program

## SYNOPSIS

tolua++5.1 \[ **options** \] *input\_file*

## DESCRIPTION

*tolua++5.1* is a program to help in building applications using the tolua++5.1 library for the Lua scripting language.

## OPTIONS

Command line options are:

- \-v

  Print version information.

- \-o *file*

  Set output file; default is stdout.

- \-H *file*

  Create include file.

- \-n *name*

  Set package name; default is input file root name.

- \-p

  Parse only.

- \-P

  Parse and print structure information (for debugging).

- \-S

  disable support for c++ strings

- \-1

  substract 1 to operator\[\] index (for compatibility with tolua5)

- \-L *file*

  run lua file (with dofile()) before doing anything

- \-D

  disable automatic exporting of destructors for classes that have constructors (for compatibility with tolua5)

- \-W

  disable warnings for unsupported features (for compatibility with tolua5)

- \-C

  disable cleanup of included lua code (for easier debugging)

- \-E *value*\[=value\]

  add extra values to the luastate

- \-t

  export a list of types asociates with the C++ typeid name

- \-q

  don't print warnings to the console

- \-h

  Print usage information.

Should the input file be omitted, stdin is assumed; in that case, the package name must be explicitly set.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was originally written by Filip Van Raemdonck \<mechanix@debian.org\> and Jimmy Kaplowitz \<jimmy@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It was expanded for tolua++5.1 by Cesare Tirabassi \<norsetto@ubuntu.com\> for the Ubuntu GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).