I don't how to set up Love

[butch]

I don't how to set up Love to work with Lua. My attempt to execute your sample function replies that love is nil:

function love.draw()
love.graphics.print("Hello World", 400, 300)
end

I am on MX Linux and have installed lua 5.3 and love 11.2.2 using Synaptic from the MX repositories.

[pgimeno]

You don't run Lua, you run Love.

Your Lua file must be called 'main.lua'. Note that Love requires a folder, not a file. You need to pass it the folder where 'main.lua' is located.

Maybe this video helps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCky-_Ad5Y

You can't choose the version of Lua that is run, it's always the one embedded in Löve, which is LuaJIT, compatible with Lua 5.1.

You may be lucky running Love as a module from Lua, as long as you use Lua 5.1 or LuaJIT. If you're interested I can elaborate.

[butch]

Thank you, Pgimeno. I literally had the cart before the horse. I was starting out to learn Lua and then noticed all of the gaming that utilized it. It never occured to me that Love had Lua embedded. Thank you for the pointer to that tutorial. I think that at my current level I will pass on trying to run Love as a module.