Compile issues

baskt_

After compiling my luaRT app to an executuble the program no longer seems to work. I made a mistake and used the static option when compiling and did not carefully read the warning that was displayed before compiling. Now when i change a value of a table it says that the value is nil even though it's defined before and i did not make any changes in the code and it worked well before. So how do i get rid of that issue? Thanks in advance! Take care 🙂

Samir

Hi Basket,

Can you post the portion of code that didn't work when compiling your scripts ?

baskt_

Sorry, for a long waiting time, but i wasn't at home. But sure, i can send a piece of my code.
This line:

ppg = ui.Label(win, "PPG: " .. stats.Points / divider, 5, 620)

it's telling me that stats.Points is nil and before that in a function that reads statistics from a json file it is defined as you can see below

for k, v in pairs(decodeddata) do
stats.Points = tonumber(v.Points)

The function that reads the statistics is also executed before using stats.Points in a label.
I even tried making a diffrent file and copying the code but the same issue occured, the thing is i did not change anything and it worked just fine before.

Samir

OK I think I know what's going on.

The Lua tonumber() function might return nil if v.Points is not a number, and when compiling your script, it might not have access to the real value of v.Points (might be read from a file).

You should put a printcall to see what v.Points is :

for k, v in pairs(decodeddata) do
   print(v.Points)
   stats.Points = tonumber(v.Points)

You must be sure that your compiled executable have access to the file where the statistics are

baskt_

Thanks for helping me! I figured it out now.

Samir

You're welcome 👍🏻