<function name="CompileFile" parent="Global" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Attempts to compile the given file. If successful, returns a function that can be called to perform the actual execution of the script.</description> <realm>Shared</realm> <args> <arg name="path" type="string">Path to the file, relative to the garrysmod/lua/ directory.</arg> <arg name="path" type="string">Path to the file, relative to the `garrysmod/lua/` directory.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="function">The function which executes the script.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Assuming our file is named example.lua and located in the garrysmod/lua/ directory, the following code would execute the script.</description> <code> local example = CompileFile("example.lua") example() </code> <output>Hello!</output> </example>