Distribution Exe Issue

[Anonymous2343]

Well, I pack the love.exe + my .love game into a .exe, include the dll's in the folder, and when I run it, it just shows the regular love.exe screen, with the pig and hearts. What am I doing wrong?
I'm using the command code "copy /b love.exe+LuaGame.love game.exe"

[Boolsheet]

That should have worked. Can you upload the combined .exe? If you don't want to distribute your game, you can just create a small example that shows the same behaviour.

The last time I helped someone that had problem with this, the .love was packaged with the 7z format instead of a Zip. Only Zip is officially supported.

[Roland_Yonaba]

Good point.
And first of all, when you build the *.love file, make sure you can run it properly by dragging it on love.exe app. If so, merging it with love.exe should result in a fully working executable.

[Boolsheet]

If so, merging it with love.exe should result in a fully working executable.

Except if it's a 7z archive.
LÖVE may support the archive as a standalone, but will ignore it if appended to the executable. Zip has its header at the end of the file (which makes it a footer, I guess) and this is exploited for the fused executable feature.

[Roland_Yonaba]

Except if it's a 7z archive.
LÖVE may support the archive as a standalone, but will ignore it if appended to the executable. Zip has its header at the end of the file (which makes it a footer, I guess) and this is exploited for the fused executable feature.

Squeek..
Didn't know that. Good point, thanks tipping.