Getting minizip to work

[MBot]

I am trying to open and re-pack mission files in a LUA for windows environment (outside the game, not in the SSE). The mission editor seems to utilize minizip to handle mission files, so I hoped to use it as well. I have found the lua-minizip.dll and the various functions used by the ME, but I cannot get it to work under windows.

 

First I am confused how minizip is loaded by the DCS ME. The script files use require('minizip'), but there is no minizip.lua or minizip.dll to be loaded anywhere.

 

When I use require('lua-minizip') instead it goes ahead (since there is a dll is called lua-minizip.dll), but the script immediately fails with the error message that the dll is no valid Win32 application.

 

Any ideas how to get this to work?

[FSFIan]

I assume that -- like the rest of DCS -- the DLL is 64-bit and you are using a 32-bit Lua interpreter.

Use "luae.exe" in the "bin" folder of your DCS: World installation. In that case, require("minizip") will also work in addition to require("lua-minizip").

[chromium]

check pm :)

[MBot]

Thanks for your help guys!

 

I originally wanted to create a standalone exe using srlua, but this would have been based on the LUA for windows interpreter which seems to be 32 bit. What I did now was to place my scripts in a new sub-folder under DCS World and add a bat file which runs everything by the LUA interpreter provided by DCS. Access to minizip functions achieved :)

[xcom]

MBot, is this thread leading to creating an updated miz file directly from the mission?

If so, I want to have it! :)

 

Please consider doing something generic.

[Dangerzone]

On 2/8/2015 at 1:46 AM, chromium said:

check pm

 Hi,

I'm reviving this topic as I'm stuck and also wanting to get minizip to work. It seems like the answer may have been provided via a PM?  I was wondering if someone can please help me out too?

My issue is that if I use either:

local minizip				= require("lua- minizip")
local zipFile = minizip.unzOpen(Zipfile, MyPath)

or

local minizip				= require("minizip")
local zipFile = minizip.unzOpen(Zipfile, MyPath)

I get the error 

attempt to call global 'require' (a nil value)

I don't know if it makes any difference but this is being ran outside of the mission itself (I call dofile from within the mission editor to run the file).

Thank

DZ

[chromium]

Sorry I don't have experience on editing the mission editor.

To see something about minizip try to check in DSMC mod, SAVE.lua file.

[HC_Official]

On 2/7/2015 at 2:18 PM, MBot said:

I am trying to open and re-pack mission files in a LUA for windows environment (outside the game, not in the SSE). The mission editor seems to utilize minizip to handle mission files, so I hoped to use it as well. I have found the lua-minizip.dll and the various functions used by the ME, but I cannot get it to work under windows.

 

First I am confused how minizip is loaded by the DCS ME. The script files use require('minizip'), but there is no minizip.lua or minizip.dll to be loaded anywhere.

 

When I use require('lua-minizip') instead it goes ahead (since there is a dll is called lua-minizip.dll), but the script immediately fails with the error message that the dll is no valid Win32 application.

 

Any ideas how to get this to work?

I use 7z to handle doing this very thing

Edited April 24, 2022 by HC_Official

[Chump]

12 hours ago, Dangerzone said:

I get the error 

attempt to call global 'require' (a nil value)

Open \Scripts\MissionScripting.lua and comment out the following line:

_G['require'] = nil

 

[Dangerzone]

13 hours ago, Chump said:

Open \Scripts\MissionScripting.lua and comment out the following line:

_G['require'] = nil

 

Wonderful. That was it. I must have overlook this part. Thank you!