lua ffi access to alien static or global variables

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/lua-ffi-access-to-alien-static-or-global-variables,5

The symbols must be extern and not static. On Windows, the symbols
on the C side must be declared as __declspec(dllexport) (or the
corresponding linker options).

On the Lua side:

  local ffi = require("ffi")
  ffi.cdef[[
  int my_global;
  ]]
  local mylib = ffi.load("mylib")
  print(mylib.my_global)

Works the same with pointers, structs, etc.

If you don't want to fill the namespace with lots of symbol names,
consider using a single exported struct that holds all variables
(or pointers to them).