pico8-to-lua

A library and command line tool to convert Pico-8's dialect of Lua to plain Lua.

Installation

As a library

cargo add pico8-to-lua

As a command line tool

cargo install pico8-to-lua

Examples

Patch a cart

pico8-to-lua cart.p8 > patched-cart.p8

Patch stdin

echo "if (true) x+= 1" | pico8-to-lua -
if true then x = x + (1) end

Patch the Code

use pico8_to_lua::patch_lua;
assert_eq!(patch_lua("x += 1"), "x = x + (1)");

Patch the Includes

use pico8_to_lua::patch_includes;
fn comment_it(path: &str) -> String {
    format!("-- INCLUDE '{}'", path)
}
assert_eq!(patch_includes("#include file.p8", comment_it), "-- INCLUDE 'file.p8'");

It's recommended to patch the includes before patching the code in practice because the includes may need patching as well.

Omissions

This handles most of the Pico-8 dialect. However, it does not handle the rotation operators: '>><' and '<<>'.

Word of Caution

Don't go trusting this too much because it is merely a collection of regular expressions and not a full blown language parser like it should be.

Origin

This is a port of Ben Wiley's pico8-to-lua Lua tool to Rust. Pico8-to-lua was originally derived from a function in Jez Kabanov's PICOLOVE project.

License

PICOLOVE is licensed under the Zlib license and so is Wiley's pico8-to-lua and so this project is.