How can I make a exe file to distribute my game ? [Answered]

[zalander]

I just finished making a game and I was wondering that how can I make a exe file to distribute my game
I hope you guys will help me

[Bigfoot71]

This is explained in the Löve2D documentation: https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution

• Compress your game in a ".zip" and rename the ".zip" to ".love".

• Then in a directory put your ".love" and the Löve2D files that you can download here (zipped version, think about the fact that the exe can be 32 or 64 bit) or recover in the directory where Löve2D is installed

• Then run this command in the current folder from a terminal changing "SuperGame" to the name of your ".love" file:

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  copy /b love.exe+SuperGame.love SuperGame.exe

And now you have an ".exe"! Do not forget the DLLs otherwise the ".exe" may produce errors on other machines. Also note that if you change the ".exe" to ".zip" you can recover the Lua files contained in it so this will not prevent you from recovering your code, if that is what you were looking to do, you will then have to either precompile it with LuaJIT or use any other obfuscation technique.

If you want to modify the ".exe" icon and/or change the info of the executable you can use software like Resource Hacker.

Note that you can also do this using love-release which you can install with LuaRocks, there are probably others.
There is also LÖVE Builder on Ivan's site that you can use to do this online.

Now you should know pretty much everything about publishing on Windows

[darkfrei]

I just finished making a game and I was wondering that how can I make a exe file to distribute my game
I hope you guys will help me

https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution

[zalander]

Thanks guys !
I now know how to make a exe file for my games.