Problem with the .Exe

[Snopel]

i have gone through all the steps on the wiki for creating a exe of my program but everytime I run it I just get the normal Rubber Piggy animation.

Anyone know why this is happening, I want to try testing multiplayer out with friends by giving them the client but it does not seem to be working

[easy82]

Hmmmmm what did you do exactly?

[Snopel]

-zipped the main.lua

-renamed it to .love

-turned it into the .exe

-put it into a folder with the .dlls

-then re-zipped it with

But when opening the .exe I just get the rubber piggy animation thing

[easy82]

-zipped the main.lua

-renamed it to .love

-turned it into the .exe

-put it into a folder with the .dlls

-then re-zipped it with

But when opening the .exe I just get the rubber piggy animation thing

So if you'd open game.zip (the one to be renamed to game.love), you'd see main.lua instantly?
Does game.love work if you run it with LÖVE?
How did you turn it into and exe?
Why did you zip it again, as the last step?

[Boolsheet]

Are you sure you used a Zip archive? LÖVE may support (unofficially) 7z or other formats, but only Zip works when appended to the executable.

If you upload the .exe file you created, we should be able to tell you what's wrong.

[Snopel]

Game thing.zip

(1.69 MiB) Downloaded 107 times

When I created the .exe I typed this into command prompt:

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copy /b "C:\Program Files (x86)\LOVE\love.exe" + "C:\Users\Owner\Documents\LOVE Programs\UDP Client" UDPClient.exe

Here is the .exe in a zip folder with the .dlls it needed

Game thing.zip

(1.69 MiB) Downloaded 107 times

[Boolsheet]

You used a RAR archive. This is not supported by LÖVE.

Edit: Also, it seems you didn't compress main.lua itself, but the directory where it is in. main.lua needs to be at the top of the archive structure for LÖVE to find it.

Edit2: Technically, you also need to distribute OpenAL32.dll. Some systems may have it already installed in their system directory but others do not and for them this will cause an error.

[Snopel]

Thank you, it works now

I kinda feel dumb now