Distributing your games (making a .love file)

[Robin]

Could you upload the .love? It might provide some insight.

[voyager]

Could you upload the .love? It might provide some insight.

Sure.

[Robin]

Ah, it seems like you made a .love from a 7-Zip archive instead of from a ZIP-file. The latter tends to work better, I couldn't even get LÖVE to run the .love on its own.

[Siwy]

Hello.
Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong? I feel some dumb right now.
I have put all my files in a folder called "test" and i packed it to .zip using winrar. I changed the name to test.love and when i try to run it i get
bla bla bla boot.lua 432: No code to run
Your game might be packed incorrectly so on so on..

Please tell me what have I done wrong?

[Robin]

As the error message says, you probably zipped the folder "test" instead of its contents. So in the .zip, there is no main.lua at the top level, just a folder called "test".

[Siwy]

As the error message says, you probably zipped the folder "test" instead of its contents. So in the .zip, there is no main.lua at the top level, just a folder called "test".

Yeah you're right.. what a flop. Now I've encountered another problem, i packed the game to .love did this whole copy /b thing in cmd and tried to run it on a different pc but i got "The program can't start because love.dll is missing" does this mean i have to, have love framework installed on each PC i want to run the game on or did I do something wrong? I also try making the test.love file with all the .dlls from the love folder but it didn't bring any results.

[slime]

You have to have love.dll, openal32.dll, SDL2.dll, lua51.dll, mpg123.dll, msvcp120.dll, and msvcr120.dll in the same folder as your fused exe.

[bobbyjones]

You also have to make the said fused exe

[Jwatt]

What are the benefits of renaming the source .zip as .love? Is that a legacy thing, or does it affect something that I haven't encountered? My packaged executables seem to work the same regardless of the file extension.

[Nixola]

LÖVE can tell the system it can open .love files, so even though it's literally just a zip file it adds a layer of convenience when you want to run it. For example, if you install LÖVE on Windows you can just double-click a .love file, but you'd have to drag a .zip file over LÖVE's executable/link in order to run it.