Run love2d through command line

kungfushark · Post by **kungfushark** » Mon May 25, 2015 5:49 pm

Does anyone know a way to run LOVE through the Windows 8 command prompt? I added LOVE to my PATH, but when I run it through the command prompt, it opens the "no game" screen, even when I try to pass it a directory as an argument.

Thanks for any possible help.

Robin · Post by **Robin** » Mon May 25, 2015 5:59 pm

It might help if you showed what you typed exactly.

Does your directory path have spaces in it? If so, do you wrap it in ""?

kungfushark · Post by **kungfushark** » Mon May 25, 2015 6:07 pm

Robin wrote:It might help if you showed what you typed exactly.

Does your directory path have spaces in it? If so, do you wrap it in ""?

What I typed was the following:

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love.exe C:\Users\hubba_000\Desktop\Code\Lua\Game dev\Invaders

I put the directory in quotes ("") and it worked fine. Thanks for your help.

davisdude · Post by **davisdude** » Mon May 25, 2015 6:17 pm

Just as a tip, IIRC you can also use "\ " to escape spaces, i.e. this should work:

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love.exe C:\Users\hubba_000\Desktop\Code\Lua\Game\ dev\Invaders

bobbyjones · Post by **bobbyjones** » Mon May 25, 2015 6:26 pm

Also the program is Löve not love2d

Youtube · Post by **bartbes** » Mon May 25, 2015 7:46 pm

davisdude wrote:Just as a tip, IIRC you can also use "\ " to escape spaces, i.e. this should work:
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love.exe C:\Users\hubba_000\Desktop\Code\Lua\Game\ dev\Invaders

Well no, backslashes separate directories on windows, they can't also escape spaces.

davisdude · Post by **davisdude** » Mon May 25, 2015 8:52 pm

bartbes wrote:Well no, backslashes separate directories on windows, they can't also escape spaces.

Huh. Apparently I did not recall correctly... it works like that on Vim anyways.

I~=Spam · Post by **I~=Spam** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:02 pm

Vim runs in unix-like shells so that means that "/" is used to separate directories. I think it is really weird that windows/dos uses a backslash not a forward slash... Oh well they cannot change that now.

davisdude · Post by **davisdude** » Mon May 25, 2015 11:17 pm

I don't think so... Whenever I enter files it delimits spaces and directories the same way. So the way I did above is how Vim works for me at least.

Anyway, this is getting kind of off-topic...

s-ol · Post by **s-ol** » Tue May 26, 2015 3:23 am

davisdude wrote:I don't think so... Whenever I enter files it delimits spaces and directories the same way. So the way I did above is how Vim works for me at least.

Anyway, this is getting kind of off-topic...

it works like that, on unix(oid) systems.

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