[SOLVED] Is luajit table.new() function available in defold?

Questions
#1

There is table.new() additional function in luajit, that can be required with require "table.new".
Is it available in defold? Because requiring it end up with an error.

#2

You can require table.new() like this:

package.preload["table.new"]()

You don’t need to use require after that anymore, just put it on the top of your script. The require that Defold uses is a bit different than standard Lua, to only include packages at runtime that it knows will be used, so unexpected modules like a Luajit extensions can require a workaround like that.

package.preload can require the following packages with that method:

ffi,
jit.profile,
jit.util,
string.buffer,
table.clear,
table.new

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#3

And if you don’t want the linter to complain about table.new(), you can use:

table.new = package.preload["table.new"]()

It will be saved in table.new anyway, so there is no functional difference besides the linter knowing that table.new is not nil anymore, and stops underlining each call of it.

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#4

Thanks