Very cool :-) Thanks Dimitar. With my non-existent knowledge of Lua, I'll start playing with it tomorrow anyway and report back.

To allow other users to add applications to Switchfin, it'd be very useful if you could explain basically how you did it (checking that the Lua source code can run on Atcom devices, writing the rigth Makefile, etc.)

After LUA apdate i have this error in switchfin trunk

svn co https://switchfin.svn.sourceforge.net/s … fin/trunk/ switchfin

[root@localhost switchfin]# make menuconfig
package/Config.in:45: can't open file "package/lua/Config.in"
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1

Can u guys tell me what the benefit of adding Lua to switchfin can be?  I'm not too familiar with it.  Is this going to add some kind of more advanced rule parsing or something like that?  sorry If I am ignorant of this thing

Hmm sounds very cool.  Have to do more reading up about Lua.
I had heard of it some years back but didn't pay close attention.
Now it seems that it could be quite useful in this context.

Gilles can you tell me how you plan to make use of it?  I mean what feature is missing in asterisk that you cannot achieve using builtin functions, I am curious

Thank you Dimitar for adding Lua and pbx_lua to Switchfin :-)

I updated the source code to release 267, compiled the project for Atcom IP01. Next, I copied the Lua interpreter to my Atcom IP01, and got a prompt. Cool!

A few notes I took:

1. Unless most people are likely to use libcurl.so.4, I think it'd be useful to update this file so it looks for libcurl.so.5 instead, and avoid breaking "make":

build_ip01/uClinux-dist/lib/libcurl/Makefile

2. Altough I chose Asterisk PBX in "make menuconfig", I didn't find pbx_lua:

/usr/src/switchfin# find . -name "pbx*"
./build_ip01/root/usr/lib/asterisk/modules/pbx_realtime.so
./build_ip01/root/usr/lib/asterisk/modules/pbx_spool.so
./build_ip01/root/usr/lib/asterisk/modules/pbx_config.so
./build_ip01/root/usr/lib/asterisk/modules/pbx_loopback.so

3. Dimitar mentionned above that "most probably we will not need [lua] and we will remove it later on so reduce the rootfs a bit)".

If so, what other compact and easy-to-use scripting language do you suggest should be available so people can write AGI scripts? What do people use to write good IVR's?

4. Generally speaking, I need to learn how to import Linux x86 applications into Switchin/uClinux, so that I can add other modules that I need such as LuaSocket, LuaSQL, etc.
Besides the wiki section below, if someone knows of good documents on how to do this, I'm interested:

http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.p … _of_topics
(documents with an empty second column are orphans, ie. not listed in the left-hand tree)

Thank you.

Hi Guys,

Oh, do you still have curl issues, so you get the compilation stops?
Is this a clean built?

Well there are 2 main possibilities (without being expert in this)
- use lua_switch and implement your complete dialplan in lua using extensions.lua file
- use agi and invoke something written in lua. This is why I have included separate lua interpreter and if usefull we will keep it in the image

Gilles, I personally don't have experience with agi and lua_pbx so please post your successful test examples.

Thanks
Dimitar

BTW, I notice that the build directory doesn't contain Asterisk's extensions.conf file:

/usr/src/switchfin/build_ip01/root# find . -name "extension*"

/usr/src/switchfin/build_ip01/root# 

Are Asterisk configuration files stuck elsewhere and added to uImage when running "make image"?