can not load luafilesystem in lua

Question

when i load lfs module in lua file, i got the error message:

error loading module 'lfs' from file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/lfs.so':
/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/lfs.so:1: unexpected symbol near 'char(127)'

here is the code:

#!/usr/bin/lua
package.path = package.path .. ";/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/?.so"
require"lfs"

if i execute the code in lua console, it succeed; if i copy the lfs.so file to the same directory as the lua file, i succeed too. i had googled,but can't find a solution.

use instead `package.cpath = package.cpath .. ";/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/?.so"` — hjpotter92, Nov 05 '15 at 10:30
@hjpotter92 it works, thank you! btw, do you knew how to close the question on stackoverflow.com? — jiafeng fu, Nov 09 '15 at 10:49

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '15 at 10:51

You're loading a C library. For C library packages, the path to be used should be package.cpath.

package.path (for modules written in Lua) and package.cpath (for modules written in C) are the places where Lua looks for modules. They are semicolon-separated lists, and each entry can have a ? in it that's replaced with the module name.

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can not load luafilesystem in lua

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