Building LÖVE - Windows

[Nixola]

The Wiki says that the source contains the Visual Studio project files, but I can't find them, I literally looked inside each folder and they're not there. Where can I find them?
P.S: I'm trying to build LÖVE 0.8.0

[Boolsheet]

It's in in 'platform/msvc2010'. How did you download the source, Mercurial or an archive? If it's the latter, what file exactly?

[Nixola]

I downloaded it as an archive from the home page, I put in it both the SDKs ( https://love2d.org/sdk/ ) (I'm using Visual Studio 8, by the way) but there are only 3 folders inside msvc2008 and 2 folders and 3 DLLs inside msvc2010

[Boolsheet]

You'll notice that the file name of the source download on the home page has the word 'linux' in it. This is a prepared package for Linux only. Use the way that the wiki describes to get the source code with the Visual Studio project files.

I'm using Visual Studio 8, by the way

I would hope not, because that's the 2005 one.

The Visual Studio 2008 project files just got axed before 0.8.0. I think it was outdated anyway.

[Nixola]

You'll notice that the file name of the source download on the home page has the word 'linux' in it. This is a prepared package for Linux only. Use the way that the wiki describes to get the source code with the Visual Studio project files.

Does it mean that I have to install Mercurial and download the source through it?

The Visual Studio 2008 project files just got axed before 0.8.0. I think it was outdated anyway.

So I wasted an hour downloading Visual Studio 2008, didn't I? (I couldn't find VS2010)

[Boolsheet]

The wiki says:

You can download the source code either by downloading an archive from one of the tags on the download page

If you go to "Downloads" and then "Tags" you see the version tags with a link to https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/get/0.8.0.zip.

So I wasted an hour downloading Visual Studio 2008, didn't I? (I couldn't find VS2010)

Err. You can use 2008 to set up the project, but you're not going to like the experience.

Edit: Oh hey, maybe it can open the 2010 project? Then again, that may fail horribly.

Btw.: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/e ... 10-express

[Nixola]

Ok, I downloaded VS2010, I downloaded the right source, I tried to compile the original source and it works, I try to compile the same source with a modified boot.lua.h and it doesn't work (Unable to run application properly (0xc000007b)). The only thing I did was copying the nogame function from 072's boot.lua and pasting it in 080's boot.lua, overriding it.

boot.lua.h:

boot.lua.h

(213.34 KiB) Downloaded 74 times

boot.lua without .h:

[Boolsheet]

Looks like you didn't generate boot.lua.h correctly.

After you changed one of the scripts, use the Lua standalone with the auto.lua script to update the headers:

Code: Select all

lua.exe auto.lua boot graphics audio

[Nixola]

Yay, it works!
Thanks!
EDIT: I want Karma back!
EDIT again: What do I have to change in the source to link lua5.1.dll dynamically?

[Boolsheet]

You don't have to change the source, just link against the import library of a DLL instead of the static one.

And here is where the runtime library pain comes. I think all libraries of the older SDK use the static C/C++ runtime. A DLL will not be able to print to the standard streams of the executable if it uses the static runtime, something you obviously want with Lua. The solution is to rebuild every dependency and link against the dynamic runtime. I did this for the 0.8.1 SDK (it's called 0.8.1 because I expected 0.8.1 much sooner ). There's probably one library still linking against the static runtime because I messed up something, but it's one that doesn't matter anyway in this case.