No special build tricks, it just works (tm) on squeezy. It seems not to work on the wheezy beta in fact (it does build there, but not run); complains about the GLX visual, as you note.

In either case, the raspberry pi is not configured in any special way.

Love builds on the RaspberryPI, without issue, following the standard Linux procedure for building from source using the code from the hg repo on bitbucket (for the 0.8.0 release). Specifically, I have built Love 0.8.0 on both of the Debian variants of Linux that the RaspberryPI foundation offer for...