Need help for love setup on mac os

[nicklowkc]

hey guys, I have followed the tutorial on this pagevhttp://www.love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started , but I can't open my sample hello world even though i save it as main.lua. It just came out a character saying no game. It seriously driving me crazy..

[Jasoco]

Post the steps you are following so we can make sure you are doing it correctly.

[Lafolie]

There are several methods on that page (I think I actually added one of them a long time ago, time flies huh?). Which method are you using?

[nicklowkc]

I followed all the steps that wrote and I did open my bash.profile and input the code into it.. But I cant understand the word "assuming it's installed to the Applications directory" because its not dmg file.
So, I create a folder and place the love and main.lua file inside the folder. Then I opened the application it just turned out the same result which is a little man stand at the center saying no game.

[Jasoco]

Installed just means drag the love.app file into /Applications as that's where the BASH thing assumes you'll put it. Otherwise change the BASH string to match where you keep your love.app.

Also note you don't have to do that part. You can run a properly designed .love or even a plain folder as long as it has a proper main.lua file in its root by simply dragging the folder/.love onto the .app. Or create a proper .love by using OS X's Archive feature to compress the contents of the folder and rename the .zip to .love and you can just double-click.

I use a different method that would probably be more confusing than the BASH method personally. But it makes it so much easier to just run and test my project. (It also requires Terminal)

[nicklowkc]

I still can't get it
Can you post a url video link or can you tell me the steps to do it???

[Lafolie]

The most desirable way to set this up is to have a binding in your text editor that you can simply press to run the game (or at least attempt to, hehe). Which text editor do you use? We could help you get set-up so that you have a really easy time instead of dragging folders or typing into Terminal.