Best way to share variables and functions beetween resources

[joker.neophyte]

Hello.

First, I tried putting all I needed into _G in all my different resources, thinking that I could use it to share stuff beetween them (_G.root = getRootElement(), etc..). It obviously didn't work. Then, I tried putting everything in one resource, using dofile() to load my scripts from subdirectories which got me an error message about it being an unsafe function.

So the question I'd like to ask is this: is there ANY way at all to share things beetween resources without using meta.xml? I don't want to write 350 lines of (and if I see it right on the wiki, it doesn't even work with variables) and a monolithic file is unmaintainable.

Any ideas?

[fmj02]

You can't share variables, only functions using

call 

or exports.resource:exportedFunction(...) this is the only way, to allow calling from other resource you have to export it first in meta.

Here is more.

EDIT: you can try to make a function getVariables that will return _G table and export it.

Edited June 28, 2013 by Guest

[ixjf]

You can always wait for MTA:Eir - it will use one single global Lua virtual machine for all resources.

[Vector]

https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtopic.php?f=148&t=61058&sid=b58333014f5ecf31ee4f74d9af856049