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ayla
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How is this working?

Post by ayla »

On both websites http://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started http://love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page_(Nederlands)

The way yo have to make a Love file is not quit understandable?

This is what i do i make a file

I make a directory

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mkdir test

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cd test

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gedit main.lua
in that file i write:

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function love.draw()
    love.graphics.print('Hallo Wereld!', 400, 300)
end

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main.lua
from this file a make a zip and give it the name test.zip

then a rename the test.zip file in test.love

When i exequite the file this is waht it say's
Error: [string "boot.lua"]:1: No code to run
Your game might be packaged incorrectly
Make sure main.lua is at the top level of the zip
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
[string "boot.lua"]:1: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:1>
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

Greating Ayla












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Kadoba
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Re: How is this working?

Post by Kadoba »

It looks like you took the right steps but it's easy to mistakenly package the directory itself instead of the contents. Open your .zip after you create it and make sure there is only the main.lua file in it and not a folder called 'test'. If that isn't the case then make sure that main.lua is being named right and not something like main.lua.txt
ayla
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Re: How is this working?

Post by ayla »

Kadoba wrote:It looks like you took the right steps but it's easy to mistakenly package the directory itself instead of the contents. Open your .zip after you create it and make sure there is only the main.lua file in it and not a folder called 'test'. If that isn't the case then make sure that main.lua is being named right and not something like main.lua.txt
Correct that's the way I understands it has to work:

You helped my to look again to the name of the main file there it was that i made a mistake mian.lua

This is what I do and now it works

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ayla@moonos:~/love/test$ zip test.love *
  adding: main.lua (deflated 4%)
ayla@moonos:~/love/test$ 

Thank yo verry much to help me forward with Love _ It is alway good to have LOVE



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Re: How is this working?

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Are you Dutch? If you like, I can explain things in Dutch.
Help us help you: attach a .love.
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