Should retrieving source code and resources from a Love game exe be this easy?

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san
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Should retrieving source code and resources from a Love game exe be this easy?

Post by san »

you can call

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copy /b love.exe+game.love game.exe 
in cmd to get an executable, This will put all your code and art into the executable. But if you call

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copy /b game.exe game.love
it will just give you the .love file that can then be turned back to zip and extracted. This can be done to any game made with Love. Is this normal?
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Re: Should retrieving source code and resources from a Love game exe be this easy?

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Yes?
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Re: Should retrieving source code and resources from a Love game exe be this easy?

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If you have concerns about *protecting* source code, then you, probably, want to refer to this: viewtopic.php?p=223862#p223862
maybe you found answers to your questions
Last edited by GVovkiv on Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Should retrieving source code and resources from a Love game exe be this easy?

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Okay, thank you.
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Re: Should retrieving source code and resources from a Love game exe be this easy?

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You don't even have to rename anything, actually. You can just unzip the .exe directly.
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