LÖVE 0.5.0

[SamPerson12345]

I can't figure out how to make it into one .exe. Can you please give more explicit instructions?

[nightvenom]

This is great news.
So what im getting for this is that we can now save our games as say:
lol.exe ? Sort of ?
Pretty much what im asking is that will we be able to now distribute the games without love as the reader/compiler ?
(standalone )
and great work on this new update to, already we have access to mp features now ?
That's some great stuff.

[aqeeliz]

...
Pretty much what im asking is that will we be able to now distribute the games without love as the reader/compiler ?
(standalone )

Yes, games would still run in love, but users won't have to download it separately.

SamPerson12345, I haven't tried it on windows, but assuming your game is called myGame.love, the process should be as follows

1. Download Zipped binaries of LÖVE, and extract them somewhere
2. Place your myGame.love file in the directory where you have extracted LÖVE
3. Open terminal, cd into the directory where you extracted LÖVE (and also copied your myGame.love) then run the following command
4. copy /b love.exe+myGame.love myGame.exe
5. Delete love.exe
6. Delete myGame.love
7. Distribute whole folder

P.S: It can also be done with installer version.

[Kaze]

I made a batch file to automate the above.
Save this as a .bat file then drag whatever .love file you want to use onto it.

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@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL


SET LoveFolder=C:\Program Files\LOVE


SET file=%1
IF NOT (%file:~-6,-1%) == (.love) (
	ECHO Not a .love
	GOTO END
	)


SET dir=%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\%~n1_executable


MKDIR "%dir%"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\love.exe"+%1 "%dir%\%~n1.exe"

COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\love.ico" "%dir%\love.ico"

COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\DevIL.dll" "%dir%\DevIL.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\ILU.dll" "%dir%\ILU.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\msvcp80.dll" "%dir%\msvcp80.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\msvcr80.dll" "%dir%\msvcr80.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\SDL.dll" "%dir%\SDL.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\SDL_mixer.dll" "%dir%\SDL_mixer.dll"

COPY /A "%LoveFolder%\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest" "%dir%\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest"

COPY /A "%LoveFolder%\license.txt" "%dir%\license.txt"


:END

Edit: Makes a folder on your desktop.

[SamPerson12345]

Thanks, but the .exe returns an error once i'm finished running the .bat. Also, what terminal do you mean aqeeliz?

[Kaze]

Thanks, but the .exe returns an error once i'm finished running the .bat. Also, what terminal do you mean aqeeliz?

What error? It works fine for me
Command prompt. Run->cmd

[nightvenom]

I made a batch file to automate the above.
Save this as a .bat file then drag whatever .love file you want to use onto it.

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@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL


SET LoveFolder=C:\Program Files\LOVE


SET file=%1
IF NOT (%file:~-6,-1%) == (.love) (
	ECHO Not a .love
	GOTO END
	)


SET dir=%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\%~n1_executable


MKDIR "%dir%"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\love.exe"+%1 "%dir%\%~n1.exe"

COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\love.ico" "%dir%\love.ico"

COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\DevIL.dll" "%dir%\DevIL.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\ILU.dll" "%dir%\ILU.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\msvcp80.dll" "%dir%\msvcp80.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\msvcr80.dll" "%dir%\msvcr80.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\SDL.dll" "%dir%\SDL.dll"
COPY /B "%LoveFolder%\SDL_mixer.dll" "%dir%\SDL_mixer.dll"

COPY /A "%LoveFolder%\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest" "%dir%\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest"

COPY /A "%LoveFolder%\license.txt" "%dir%\license.txt"


:END

Edit: Makes a folder on your desktop.

Nice, ty

[Mr. Strange]

I want to add a network layer to my current project - it's nothing I've ever done personally before, but I'm not afraid of it.

However, I'm really not sure what it means that love "supports" lua socket. What do I need to grab, and where do I need to put it? I can follow the documentation for actually using lua socket in my app I believe, but I don't know how to get started.

--Mr. Strange

[bartbes]

Just use

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require "socket"

And I'll also like to use this opportunity to direct you to my networking lib (located under projects & development)

[Mr. Strange]

Awesome! thanks for pointing that out.

--Mr. Strange