Distributing for linux... Runs the game slave.

[gigimoi]

Build.sh

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#!/bin/bash
zip -r ${PWD##*/}.love *.png *.lua

Package.sh

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#!/bin/bash
cat /usr/bin/love ${PWD##*/}.love > ${PWD##*/} && chmod +x ${PWD##*/}

main.lua

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require "TLpath"
require "TLfrez"

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.print("Hello World", 0, 0)
	TLfres.transform()
	TLfres.letterbox(4, 3)
end
function love.update()
	TLpath.update()
end
function love.load()
	TLfres.setScreen({w=640, h=480, full=false, vsync=true, aa=2}, 640)
   -- image = love.graphics.newImage("cake.jpg")
   local f = love.graphics.newFont(12)
   love.graphics.setFont(f)
   love.graphics.setColor(0,0,0,255)
   love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(255,255,255)
end

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After Building and packaging, I get the "TestLUAGame" linux binary, Upon launching
this binary, the game slave is launched instead of my game. How do I go about properly
turning the .love into a binary?

[Inny]

I'd advise against distributing games on linux that way. The biggest problem you'd encounter is that the version you built the game on (say Ubuntu 12.04) almost certainly wouldn't run on Fedora or Arch, or even Ubuntu 11.10. It'd be similar to how things made for Windows7 probably wouldn't run on WindowXP. You're better off just distributing via a .love file, and maybe with a clever shell script that checks that love is installed, is the correct version, and launches the game for you.

[gigimoi]

I'd advise against distributing games on linux that way. The biggest problem you'd encounter is that the version you built the game on (say Ubuntu 12.04) almost certainly wouldn't run on Fedora or Arch, or even Ubuntu 11.10. It'd be similar to how things made for Windows7 probably wouldn't run on WindowXP. You're better off just distributing via a .love file, and maybe with a clever shell script that checks that love is installed, is the correct version, and launches the game for you.

It will be distributed with a script that installs Love 0.8, (If necessary, and after authentication) then builds + packages the entire application.

[bartbes]

There's been some known issues with folder having the same name as the executable, so you could try if that's your case, if not, are you sure your .love is packaged correctly?

[gigimoi]

There's been some known issues with folder having the same name as the executable

Upon renaming the binary to asdfghjkl, nothing has changed.

if not, are you sure your .love is packaged correctly?

The .love file runs correctly.

[josefnpat]

Take a look at how I build the linux version for my LD23 game, pocket strife.

From what I understood from the people who ran the LD23, I was the only love developer that had a standalone linux binary that worked.

Basically, I used this scripton ubuntu 11.04 64 bit, and then used it again on 12.04 32 bit. This script went out and copied all the compiled .so files.

Then, when one clones the instance, they can run the build_dep.sh script, which downloads all the stuff you need for love.

Then, finally, the build.sh script makes:

• love file
• 32 bit linux binary with .so's (in a tgz)
• 64 bit linux binary with .so's (in a tgz)
• 32 bit windows binary with .dll's (in a zip)
• 32 bit windows binary with .dll's (in a zip)
• Universal app for OSX (in a zip)

I hope this helps.

[jfroco]

Hello josefnpat,

Great information. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I have one doubt: Where did you get love_i686.tar.gz and love_x86_64.tar.gz?

Thank you

[josefnpat]

Hello josefnpat,

Great information. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I have one doubt: Where did you get love_i686.tar.gz and love_x86_64.tar.gz?

Thank you

I had to build them from checking the binary dependencies using ldd.

I'm going to be working with someone very soon on getting a set of universal versions of the ldd core extensions soon, but at the moment, they only work with handful of linux systems.