Making luabind work in ubuntu

To be able to run Luabind in Ubuntu, you need to install libluabind-dev and lua:
kuyu@ub16:~/dkuyu/Dropbox/practice/lua/luabind/hellobind$ sudo apt-get install libluabind-dev
kuyu@ub16:~/dkuyu/Dropbox/practice/lua/luabind/hellobind$ sudo apt-get install lua

Consider this hellobind.cpp code:

	#include <iostream>
	#include <luabind/luabind.hpp>
	void greet()
	{
	std::cout << "hello world!\n";
	}
	extern "C" int init(lua_State* L)
	{
	using namespace luabind;
	open(L);
	module(L)
	[
	def("greet", &greet)
	];
	return 0;
	}

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Then consider this test.lua code:

kuyu@castor-ub:~/dkuyu/Dropbox/practice/lua/luabind/hellobind$ cat test.lua
package.loadlib('./hellobind.so', 'init')()
greet()

To run the test.lua code:

kuyu@castor-ub:~/dkuyu/Dropbox/practice/lua/luabind/hellobind$ cat commands.bash 
#!/bin/bash
g++ hellobind.cpp -I/usr/include/lua5.2/ -c -fPIC
g++ -shared -Wl,--whole-archive -o hellobind.so hellobind.o -lluabind -Wl,--no-whole-archive
lua test.lua
kuyu@castor-ub:~/dkuyu/Dropbox/practice/lua/luabind/hellobind$ ./commands.bash 
hello world!

Sometimes, loading the C++ library in Lua can be problematic. To see what the problems are when loading the library, you can execute this lua file (execute "lua test1.lua"):

kuyu@castor-ub:~/dkuyu/Dropbox/practice/lua/luabind/hellobind$ cat test1.lua
local initfunction, errormessage = package.loadlib('/home/kuyu/dkuyu/Dropbox/practice/lua/luabind/hellobind.so','init')
if errormessage then
    print('Error loading hello_world:', errormessage)
end