love-release - in Lua ! - makes LÖVE game release easier

[Volgoza]

Hi!
Nice script, it do easy compile exe, but i have a problem.

I write in console "/home/love/love-release.sh -w -v 0.8.0 /home//love/love.love" and script create in exe path form - "\home\love" and of course exe doesnt work.

What i do wrong?

Or i need write "/home/love/love-release.sh -w -v 0.8.0 [all files]" ? But script drop out all .ttf files

Help plz.

[Rucikir]

Ok, so maybe I did not explained really well how it worked...
You should run it in your project's directory, like /home//MyProjects/MyAwesomeGame, where all your files (main.lua and stuff) are stored. Then, the scripts takes by default every file it founds, zips them and makes the executable. If you chose to specify files after you passed all the options, the script will only zip the files you specified.
For now, it doesn't support only indicating a love file like you did, it need to be launched inside your project's root.
If you want to set another place for your project's release directory, use option -r.

So I guess you would like to use it this way:

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$ cd Projects/MyGame
$ love-release.sh -w -v 0.8.0

I'm working on other things, like setting an application icon, and proper linux packaging.

[Rucikir]

Hi everyone ! It's been a while...
I just decided to work again on this little thing, and I've added a few things that may makes life easier.

• Now 0.9.1 by default.
• If a conf.lua file is provided, the script will try to detect the right version of Love to use.
• If a ProjectName.icns file is provided, the script will use it to set the game icon on MacOS.

https://github.com/MisterDA/love-release
Bash isn't very difficult, but there's always sooo many ways of doing the same thing...

Still, I'm not shure about this: I've assumed that you just have to replace the game.ico that is shipped with the download to set your application icon on Windows. Am I wrong ? Then, what is the point of t.window.icon = nil -- Filepath to an image to use as the window's icon (string) ? What is the purpose of this ? Where should be placed the image ? What format/dimensions ?

[Positive07]

Hi there. The icon in the zip or installed version of LÖVE for Windows is just for the .love files, if you want to change the icon of the .exe you need something like Resource Hacker, you need an .ico file with multiple resolutions of your icon.
The t.window.icon is the icon of the window (the one that shows at the corner next to the title).
In OS X you just have to change the icons in the resource folder (I think, I'm not a Mac user)

Take a look at this:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8657
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11406
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=806

[Rucikir]

Thanks for the answer.
I removed the game.ico stuff, and turned it to support MacOS instead.

EDIT: I have found something in order to set the icon for Windows, from Linux http://www.nongnu.org/icoutils/. Do someone knows about it ?

[WetDesertRock]

I'm on a mac, and as I was packaging up my game for LD29, I realized that your script was including .DS_Store files. It would be nice if you made sure it didn't. That and .git/ (but I didn't see any of those in there).

(Also the desktop icon doesn't display for me?)

Great script!

[kikito]

I could not get this script to work.

I tried it on my ld-29 entry. This is what I did:

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git clone https://github.com/kikito/ld-29.git
cp love-release.sh ld-29
cd ld-29
bash love-release -m

Error:

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bash love-release.sh -m
(standard_in) 1: parse error
(standard_in) 1: parse error
  adding: LICENSE (deflated 41%)
  adding: README.md (deflated 2%)
  adding: animations.lua (deflated 67%)
  adding: conf.lua (deflated 36%)
  adding: lib/ (stored 0%)
  adding: lib/anim8.lua (deflated 65%)
  adding: lib/gamera.lua (deflated 64%)
  adding: lib/middleclass.lua (deflated 67%)
  adding: lib/stateful.lua (deflated 69%)
  adding: lib/util.lua (deflated 50%)
  adding: main.lua (deflated 64%)
  adding: map.lua (deflated 69%)
  adding: map_filler.lua (deflated 62%)
  adding: maps/ (stored 0%)
  adding: maps/map1.txt (deflated 97%)
  adding: media/ (stored 0%)
  adding: media/img/ (stored 0%)
  adding: media/img/bad_guy.png (deflated 6%)
  adding: media/img/bad_guy.xcf (deflated 64%)
  adding: monsters/ (stored 0%)
  adding: monsters/goblin.lua (deflated 52%)
  adding: monsters/monster.lua (deflated 74%)
  adding: monsters/mushroom.lua (deflated 62%)
  adding: monsters/rat.lua (deflated 51%)
  adding: monsters/slug.lua (deflated 72%)
  adding: monsters.lua (deflated 59%)
  adding: tile.lua (deflated 66%)
love-release.sh: line 384: [: =: unary operator expected
[love--macosx-ub.zip]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of love--macosx-ub.zip or
        love--macosx-ub.zip.zip, and cannot find love--macosx-ub.zip.ZIP, period.
mv: rename love.app to ld-29.app: No such file or directory
cp: ld-29.app/Contents/Resources: No such file or directory
love-release.sh: line 561: ld-29.app/Contents/Info.plist: No such file or directory

[Rucikir]

First, thanks for the feedback.

I realized that your script was including .DS_Store files.

Well, on Ubuntu it never occured to me that the zip command was adding hidden files ( .* ). Maybe it is different with mac.
It should now exclude every file beginning whith a dot. I'm not shure if it is a really good behaviour, though. And zip has its own ways of handling directories.

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EXCLUDE_FILES=$(/bin/ls -A | grep "^[.]" | tr '\n' ' ')
zip -9 -r $RELEASE_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME.love -x $0 $MAIN_RELEASE_DIR/\* ${PROJECT_ICNS##/*/} $EXCLUDE_FILES @ *

(Also the desktop icon doesn't display for me?)

Turns out autocompletion had made me type PROJECT_FILE instead of PROJECT_NAME. It should work now.

I could not get this script to work.

For kikito, I've reproduced the bug, and it is a pretty strange one.
The thing is, I'm trying to detect the Löve version to use by grep-ing the conf.lua file.
grep -Eo '[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+' conf.lua is not enough, because the string can be found multiple times in the file.
So I thought of doing this:

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if [ -f conf.lua ]; then
    LOVE_VERSION_CONF=$(grep -Eo 't.version = "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+"' conf.lua | grep -Eo '[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+')
    if [ -n $LOVE_VERSION_CONF ]; then
        LOVE_VERSION=$LOVE_VERSION_CONF
    fi
fi

If there is a conf.lua file, and if t.version is specified, it works well. But, if there's not... if [ -n $LOVE_VERSION_CONF ] is still verified !
And more strange, both tests -n and -z are true !
So LOVE_VERSION gets a wrong value, bc outputs (standard_in) 1: parse error and zip goes crazy.

I have removed this behaviour for the moment. If someone knows a right way to do this, please tell me.

By the way, there is a strange __MACOSX directoy in the new 0.9.1 .zip that we can download. Zip could ask if you want to replace it or not. It doesn't matter as it is not bundled with the final zip.

[kikito]

This fixed my issue, thanks!

[Rucikir]

I've worked a little (again) on it, and made a few improvements.
Firstly, a bunch of cleanup (hope it did not broke the whole thing) and bug fixes.

Secondly, I have managed to properly detect the version the project uses by using Lua (if a conf.lua file is found).

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LOVE_VERSION=$(lua -e 'f = loadfile("conf.lua"); t, love = {window = {}, modules = {}}, {}; f(); love.conf(t); print(t.version)')

Finally, icons !
If a ProjectName.icns file is provided, the script will use it to set the game icon on MacOS.
If a ProjectName.ico file is provided, and that Wine and Resource Hacker are installed, the script will use them to set the game icon on Windows.
The script doesn’t yet handle the process of creating icons, but if provided it can use them, assuming Wine and Resource Hacker are installed.

• if you want to create MacOS icons (.icns), and you are
  • running MacOS, then check iconutil.
  • running GNU/Linux, then check libicns.
• if you want to create Windows icons (.ico), you can
  • use icoutils to create the icon,
  • then Wine and Resource Hacker to set the icon.

That's all, folks !