Love file protection...?

[orgos]

Hi

I like the LOVE environment and features, but how i can protect my final .love file? Its possible generate an executable? or compile the .love file?

[athanazio]

take a look on this discussion
http://love2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=632

[Sparx]

AFAIK there is no effective way of protecting the sourcecode.
It is possible to create a windows executable by just adding the .love file to the end of the love executable.. but still a veryvery poor protection of sourcecode

[athanazio]

I agree that is not possible to have a 100% protection,
but attach the love to the end of exe really helps to avoid the minor attacks
something like 80%... (guessing)

[rude]

You could compile the source into Lua bytecode.

[osgeld]

yea but you can decompile it pretty easy and unless you told luac to strip the source your script will more or less pop up in the decompiled file

[bartbes]

I guess this might be a post-0.6.0 feature.

@rude: don't worry, if I'm still alive by then (roadmap reference!) I will do it... I think

EDIT: pre and post have very different meanings

[orgos]

Its possible use the LOVE api in the c or c++ language?

And for some features have a LUA script loader and execute the code to make IA scripts for example?

[Fruchthieb]

By the way... get the program a little bit faster, if i compile the sourcecode to bytecode?


By the way ... why would anyone like to protect the sourcecode?

[Robin]

By the way... get the program a little bit faster, if i compile the sourcecode to bytecode?

Startup time might be a bit less, because it doesn't need to compile the file, but I doubt it's noticeable. After that, there should be no difference at all.