Löve2D with C?

[Abello966]

Hello everyone.
I'm a CS student on my first year and my next class project is to code in C a steganography program to hide text in a pgm image. I decided I wanted to take it a little further and turn it on a fully functional program. The idea would be to write an graphic interface with Lua/LÖVE2D. The only thing I'm not sure is, is it possible or functional? Could I write a C program which calls a Lua script that uses löve?

[bartbes]

It's possible I guess, though love is c++. That said, I very much doubt your assignment allows for this..

[kikito]

You could do the opposite: a love program that calls C functions. You would have to wrap the C functions into Lua-callable functions/objects. It would not be easy, I don't recommend it for an assignment - do it in your free time instead.

[Hexenhammer]

Hello everyone.
I'm a CS student on my first year and my next class project is to code in C a steganography program to hide text in a pgm image. I decided I wanted to take it a little further and turn it on a fully functional program. The idea would be to write an graphic interface with Lua/LÖVE2D. The only thing I'm not sure is, is it possible or functional? Could I write a C program which calls a Lua script that uses löve?

It should be the other way around if your GUI is in LÖVE. You simply write your text hiding program as a console app and then call it from the LÖVE GUI using os.execute().

Making sure that your C program works without the LÖVE GUI also makes sure that you don't get into trouble for not fulfilling the requirements of your assignment.

A more advanced solution would be to write a text hiding library in C and integrate it into LÖVE (you can link a C lib with a C++ app). That way you could build the whole thing as one coherent program. And you could still write a small console app in C using said library to fulfill the requirement of handing in a pure C program.

[Abello966]

Thank you, guys.
Yes, the idea was never to hand the project with LÖVE to my teacher, just write the pure C program and turn it in, then later build a visual interface to integrate it, in my spare time
What I am going to do then is write all the functions I'll need in C and call them from a Lua/LÖVE2D program.