bad constant in precompiled chunk while executing

[kapsky]

I get an error while trying to load bytecode. Script is simple:

print("lubie placki")

When executing this and every other script as bytecode:

char* lua_argv[] = { (char *)"lua", (char *)"/rom/lua3.luac", NULL };
        lua_main( 2, lua_argv );

I get message: "bad constant in precompiled chunk while executing"

This error came from function

static void LoadConstants(LoadState* S, Proto* f)

What can I do with it ? What does exactly mean ? Would be nice if will be a description in wiki about this kind of errors, what they mean.

Thanks in advance for replies !

[BogdanM]

Hi,

That generally means that the Lua file wasn't compiled to bytecode properly; for example, precompiling for little endian on a big endian architecture, or the other way around. Other such issues are possible, like using invalid data types when precompiling. See for example https://github.com/elua/elua/blob/master/build_data.lua#L54 for a list of cross-compilation data.

Best,
Bogdan

[kapsky]

Thanks for reply.
How to proper compile it ? In http://www.eluaproject.net/doc/v0.9/en_using.html#cross is written that I should use

./luac -ccn float 64 -cce little -o <script.luac> -s <script.lua>

 option. But when I try to compile it I get

 luac: unrecognized option '-ccn'

In available options are not -ccn and -cce.

[BogdanM]

You're probably using the standard 'luac'. Cross-compilation requires a special luac that you need to build locally (the documentation talks about this). Try running 'lua cross-lua.lua', this should build the cross compiler locally.

[kapsky]

Yes you have right. Probably I was using some luac from PATH instead of generated by cross-lua.lua. Now everything works.

Thank you !