Building LÖVE on Windows, a story in pictures

[Santos]

So I built LÖVE from the source today, care to see what happened? Wonderful!

Note: This is the abridged version, without a trillion (approx.) mistakes along the way. Also, I haven't a clue what I'm doing, so I'm probably doing it all wrong, and there's already a good guide to building LÖVE, so basically this is pointless but maybe everyone loves images enough to not notice this?

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I'm going to download Visual C++ 2010 Express.

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Installing!

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I'mma use Mercurial and TortoiseHg from here to download LÖVE's source.

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Right-clicking and selecting Clone...

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Putting https://bitbucket.org/rude/love into that Source field...

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Something is happening! THIS IS EXCITING.

And now there's a folder named love!

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At love2d.org/sdk. I think this file contains some kind of DLL magic.

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Extracting it. The files end up in that love folder.

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At love\platform\msvc2010. That love.vcxproj file sounds like something one should double-click on.

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I have no idea what I'm doing.

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"Build"! That sounds like the thing I am trying to do.

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What's this in love\platform\msvc2010\bin\x86\Release\MT?

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Hey, it's my very own love.exe, yaaaaaaaaay!

The end.

[Roland_Yonaba]

Santos: You Are The Man.
And this out deserves to be either featured in the wiki, and on the blög.
Hell yeah.

[Santos]

Hahahaha, thanks Roland!

I think all of the text on the wiki should be replaced with pictures, and if something really needs to be in words, then it should be in hieroglyphics. Shout outs to Kasoki for the coordinate system diagram and bartbes for the Source controls flowchart and Boolsheet for these! (Perhaps that diagram or something like it would be nice somewhere on the wiki?)

[josefnpat]

I haven't used windows in years, but this has taught me something as well.

Learning is fun!

Thanks for sharing! This might be nice labeled as "Step by step building love on windows."

Of course, the linux version is rather abridged (albeit complicated);

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pacman -S devil freetype2 libmodplug libvorbis lua51 mpg123 openal physfs sdl # 0.7.x
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/rude/love && cd love
./platform/unix/automagic
./configure
make

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[bartbes]

Of course, the linux version is rather abridged (albeit complicated);

Since you're using arch in your example, why not just install love-hg from the aur?

[josefnpat]

Since you're using arch in your example, why not just install love-hg from the aur?

Nostalgia?

But seriously, I had to learn to build love myself due to the fact that I ran ubuntu 10.04, which required some hackery/flaggery to get to work properly. I am prepared.