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paperkettle · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Nov 2011 Posts: 7

I'm new to Cheat Engine.. just gotta say - it is a really astonishing program! I love that it has Lua too!

I'd like to be able to use the luasocket module (I'm aiming to have CE sending/receiving UDP messages via Lua) but I'm having trouble.

When I copy all of the source files for the luasocket module into Cheat Engine's directory, and try to do

Dark Byte · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:44 am Post subject:

have you copied the lua5.1-32.dll from ce to lua5.1.dll or did you use the same dll as in the package of luasocket ? (the lua dll by ce is slghtly different from standard, so use ce's one )

paperkettle · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Nov 2011 Posts: 7

Thanks for the quick reply!

Yeah I noticed you have your own lua build for CE.

To use the luasocket module, I think I need lua's primary dll to be named "lua5.1.dll" in the Cheat Engine folder.

On a whim, I tried making a duplicate of your lua5.1-32.dll and renaming it to lua5.1.dll... but that caused CE to crash when opening a socket.

I'm going to try to see if I can rebuild the luasocket module such that it looks for your lua5.1-32.dll
I've read a lot of problems people have trying to do their own build of the luasocket module.. so we'll see.

Ever consider adding the sockets module to CE? It could make for epic remote communication with the lua engine!

paperkettle · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Nov 2011 Posts: 7

My noobsauce noodling has yet to produce a working build of luasocket that links to your custom lua dll. Confused

Dark Byte · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:39 am Post subject:

No idea either.

But try recompiling luasocket to use lua5.1-32.dll instead of lua5.1.dll.
Perhaps lua makes use of global variables inside it's dll messing stuff up

hiring_dude · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 28 Nov 2010 Posts: 20

Yop,
i would like to post/retreive multiple user statistics data from a web server.
did you succeeded to make it work paperkettle ? Laughing

i just pasted unzipped "luasocket-2.0.2-lua-5.1.2-Win32-vc8.zip"
directly on the main CE folder

Dark Byte · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:10 am Post subject:

I've compiled lua socket with my own lua version's header files and that works:
http://cheatengine.org/temp/ce_luasocket.rar (you may need the vc8 runtime if you don't have it)

for other modules, here's the sourcecode of my lua build:
http://cheatengine.org/temp/luasrc.rar

hiring_dude · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 28 Nov 2010 Posts: 20

thank you very much !

paperkettle · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Nov 2011 Posts: 7

So awesome!! Thanks!! I'll give it a try an report back!!

paperkettle · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Nov 2011 Posts: 7

hmm.
I get a "error loading module 'socket.core' from file '.\socket\core.dll': system error 14001

I installed vc8 runtime as well.

Anyone else have any luck?

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:33 pm Post subject:

Make sure you installed the 32-bit VC8 runtime (not the 64-bit one, even if you have 64-bit windows)

also, run cheatengine-i386.exe, not the 64-bit version of ce

paperkettle · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 18 Nov 2011 Posts: 7

Double checking: VC8 is VC++ 2005 right?
In any case I've tried all sorts of VC++ runtime installers (2005,2008,2010) and no luck. Using 32 bit installers and cheatengine-i386.exe

I still get:
"error loading module 'socket.core' from file '.\socket\core.dll': system error 14001

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:25 pm Post subject:

Sorry, Visual studio 2008 runtime

14001 means the SxS(side by side) configuration on your system isn't setup properly, which indicates a problem with the runtime

hiring_dude · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 28 Nov 2010 Posts: 20

Hi, sorry for late answer (apartment moving),but i've got the same error problem..

socket = require("socket")
print(socket._VERSION)

Error:error loading module 'socket.core' from file '.\socket\core.dll':
system error 14001

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject:

redownload http://cheatengine.org/temp/ce_luasocket.rar
this one is compiled without the runtime DLL requirement