luaRequire doesn't seem to work?

[MysticTortoise]

Hi! I am trying to use this (in addition to roblox-hx) to prototype an idea of mine and I wanted to include some native lua code. I would prefer to not inline it (i.e. use untyped __lua__) and instead have my code in an extern module, however that doesn't seem to be supported in reflaxe.lua.

Is there something I'm missing or is this feature simply not yet implemented? And if it is not yet implemented, is there any barrier to doing so?

Example code:

package papercraft.target.ui;

@:luaRequire("@game/ReplicatedStorage/papercraft/native/NativeContainer")
extern class NativeContainer {

    public static function make():Void;
}

Generated .lua file:

local Test = {};

local importPkg, registerPkg = unpack(require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("HxPkgWrapper")));

registerPkg("papercraft.ui.Test", {Test});



setmetatable(Test, {
	__tostring = function(self)
		return "Class<Test>"
	end;
})
Test.__index = Test
Test.__name__ = "Test"
Test.__fields__ = {"test"}
function Test.test()
	NativeContainer.make()
end



return {Test}

[MysticTortoise]

After looking around the codebase this functionality seems to be available via the @:customImport meta tag. I would propose that the @luaRequire meta tag be implemented as a wrapper over @:customImport to better maintain compatibility with the official Lua implementation of Haxe.

[Davvex87]

I originally didnt use @:luaRequire due to compatibility issues with my old Haxe->Lua transpiler but yeah you're 100% right. I'll keep this open until I can fix it (or eventually a PR is made).

Also I recommend you update reflaxe.lua and roblox-hx to git as a bunch of fixes regarding externs and package imports were pushed.
Good luck with your projects!