direct mod loading

[fgardt]

Use Factorio Lua to load & execute mods settings & prototype stage directly without needing Factorio to dump prototypes.

• get flua-src-rs to build on windows
• fork mlua and integrate flua
• figure out mod load order
• load & execute settings & prototype stages

[mkfmnn]

fork mlua and integrate flua

Could hopefully reuse factorio-mlua

[fgardt]

fork mlua and integrate flua

Could hopefully reuse factorio-mlua

oh I have all the mod loading working already with https://github.com/fgardt/flua-src-rs and https://github.com/fgardt/mlua/.
The only problem that is left really is that I can't get flua to compile on windows for the life of me.

[redruin1]

I'm willing to work on this, since I'm planning on rewriting the backend of Draftsman in Rust and this seems like a good place to abstract out a lot of the code used for lifecycle-emulation to a broader audience. What's the reason it's currently blocked?

[fgardt]

its not blocked anymore actually, it was blocked before because I was unable to figure out how to compile flua on windows but thats been resolved recently with fgardt/flua-src-rs@f572d21.

And you actually don't have to do anything for it since I already have a full settings & data stage implementation thats working. I've just not put it here publicly and not used it for scanner since it was not working for windows before.

[fgardt]

@redruin1 see the new factorio_datastage crate for my settings & prototype stage implementation.

Only thing thats currently known to be missing is LuaHelpers::evaluate_expression but I'll implement that soon.