Love2D I/O to any directory?

[Skeletonxf]

Wouldn't you need different binaries again for Android and iOS?

[bobbyjones]

Yeah. Idk if luafilesystem works on those platforms.

But it doesn't matter to the OP. He is making a desktop application presumably.

[Positive07]

Fused games can load dlls from the Save folder (applies to all platforms)

Also I must point out this library which may fit better what you need. I'm pointing to my pull-request since there are instructions for building on Windows, you could also build it for Linux using GTK file dialogs or in MacOS X where you would get native Cocoa file dialogs, you just need to compile, package the library with your game and require "nfs" which provides three functions, each returns a path to the file selected:

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local nfs = require "nfs"

--Open a file from the image folder, filters them out by image extensions
local path = nfs.open("png;jpg,jpeg;bmp", "C:\Users\user\Images") 
print(path)

--There is also nfs.openMany(filter, path) which lets the user pick multiple files and returns a table with all the files paths

--And there is also nfs.save(filter, path) which works the same way as nfs.open

All functions are blocking, if you don't want to block the game run them from a thread