Installing LÖVE on Mac OS X

[Celloman]

Hi I was just looking into this and decided to download it. When I downloaded the zip drive and opened it i just get a window popup that shows a pink pig with rubber hearts surrounding it. I am unable to do anything other than look at it. And when I unzip the program again it reloads the pink piggy file named "love".

I have a Max OSX 10.6.8 snowleopard
And I did click the link for the Mac OSX.


Does anyone know how to solve my problem?

[Qcode]

That's the "no game" screen. Go over to the projects and demos section, and download someone's .love file. Double clicking on that should run their game in the love app. This app is for making games and playing others games, it's not a game itself.

[pixelpatrol]

Try the "Hello World" example: https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started. There is a description for running löve applications on OS X. You will see that you have to invoke the love application inside love.app (or drop your application folder onto love.app). Probably you want to do the first, because you can then build your application from your favorite IDE/texteditor (e.g. Sublime Text 2).

[lewiji]

Regarding building within IDEs, I just set up Love last night and did this to put love on the system path (in a terminal):

sudo ln -s ~/path/to/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love /usr/bin/love

This creates a symlink (shortcut) to the love binary in your user binary folder, which will then allow you to run the command 'love' in the command line and build from a Sublime Text plugin like https://github.com/minism/SublimeLove

[Celloman]

Thanks guys. One question that is going to make me sound really down. Where do I download the LÖVE app? I keep on getting programs other people have made.

[Qcode]

You can get it from here: https://love2d.org/.
It's the second link down in the download section. Click this one: LÖVE 0.8.0 for Mac OS X – Zipped Universal Build. The link's here if you're too lazy to get to the main page https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/downloa ... osx-ub.zip.