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Beastin_Cade, posted Thu Oct 29, 2020 7:40 pm (59841)

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trying to convert this normal lua script to this type of luac. the luac i provided has a LUAQ header, and i want to convert my .lua script to a LUAQ header .luac file

LolHacksRule, posted Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:40 pm (59842)

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Sounds like a compiled Lua 5 file. Try using luac to compile.

Beastin_Cade, posted Fri Nov 06, 2020 1:23 am (59858)

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so i tried it with lua 5.1 and i get a luaq header, but its not the same type as it is a little different and has a bigger file size when i use luac and convert it to a luac luaq type

atom0s, posted Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:10 pm (59990)

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You need to make sure your version of Lua and Luac are setup the same as the target expects.

For example, the compiled Lua file you gave us shows that it's compiled with a luac compiler that is:
- Lua 5.1
- Big Endian (Little-Endian is default for Lua which should be 01, but your script is 00 for big.)
- sizeof(lua_Number) == 4 which means lua_Number is defined as a float and not a double.
- The debug information is stripped from the script. (Use flag '-s' with luac when compiling scripts to get that same result.)