Lua: Compiles in native lua but error in C++ with LuaJIT and sol2

Question

I have the following lua code, which runs fine in an online interpreter:

__sprite_properties = {
    events = {}
}

function bind_event(event_name, fun)
    table.insert(__sprite_properties.events, { event_name, fun })
    print(__sprite_properties.events[1][1])
end

foo = function() 
    return 0
end
bind_event("foo_event", foo)

>> foo_event

But when I try to load and run the script in C++ using sol2 library, I've got the following error at the table.insert statement:

script.lua:6: attempt to index global 'table' (a nil value)

stack traceback: script.lua:6: in function 'bind_event' -- script.lua:13: in main chunk

I'm using LuaJIT as lua distribution. The code used to load the script in lua is the following snippet:

sol::state lua;
lua.open_libraries(sol::lib::base);
try {
    lua.safe_script_file("script.lua");
}
catch (const sol::error& e) {
    std::cout << e.what() << std::endl;
}

How comes that this code can't execute properly when loaded in c++?

Answer 1

Have you loaded the standard Lua libraries in your C++ code? You seem to have loaded only the base library, not the table library:

lua.open_libraries(sol::lib::base);