How do I make a GMod module?

[ARitz Cracker]

So, I know C++, I know Lua, and I have a basic sense on how the source engine works.
How do I combine my skills to make a module for GMod?

What if I want to use a 3rd party library? What happens then?

[man with hat]

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Setting_Visual_Studio_Up_for_Making_Binary_Modules[/url]
[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Creating_Binary_Modules[/url]
[url]http://www.lua.org/pil/24.2.html[/url]
[url]http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#4.8[/url]
[url]https://github.com/garrynewman/gmod-module-base/blob/master/example/src/gm_example.cpp[/url]

GMod has [URL="https://github.com/garrynewman/gmod-module-base/blob/master/include/GarrysMod/Lua/LuaBase.h#L18"]its own interface[/URL] for C <-> Lua, but the functions are mostly just renames/wrappers for the normal Lua C functions. If you want access to the raw Lua C functions, they're exported in lua_shared.dll

[c👌de_g🎷]

Also, if you want to access a Source instance or object, it might be useful to know what to include: [url]https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013[/url]

[ARitz Cracker]

Thanks, guys! My first tests are going pretty well

[editline]8th December 2015[/editline]

I got a lot of stacking to do

[TrinityX]

A bit late but here's a good example of a very basic module. I'd also reccomend you use this as a base for your modules to keep includes to a minimum and to make your modules easy to build.

[URL="https://github.com/glua/module-base"]https://github.com/glua/module-base[/URL]

[Willox]

If you're using the above project and premake5, [url]https://github.com/glua/SourceSDK[/url] is useful for anything that uses the SourceSDK (especially tier1 which people usually have issues compiling).

Use like so: [url]https://github.com/glua/gm_stringtable[/url] & [url]https://github.com/glua/gm_stringtable/blob/master/premake5.lua[/url]