Adapted from: https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-embedding-lua-in-c/

Just run: odin run .

Shows:

• Starting a Lua state
• Defining variables for Lua
• Doing Lua Strings in Odin
• Loading scripts
• Creating functions in Odin for Lua
• Creating a namespace in Odin for Lua and adding functions
• Calling Lua functions from Odin with and without return
• Getting errors from Lua

Don't forget the Lua files.

Update 08-05-2025: Removed the dynamic allocations, since they are not needed. Added tests. Trying to do metatables, but the fields of the tables are not recognized.

Update 05-21-2026 : Removed metatables. Added luafile example.

Update 07-30-2026 : Showed how to add tables in Odin and how to pass them to functions.

Update 07-31-2026 : Figured out metatables and userdata. Showed two examples in script5 and script6.lua. Testlua scripts show the comparison in pure Lua. Way less Ram is used with Userdata.