Begineer: How do you insert a library

[xenogia]

I've noticed people create libraries to help with game development in Love2D? I know this is a stupid question but how do you include it via lua. Is it something like include "blah.lua"?

[kikito]

It's usually require.

Code: Select all

require 'blah.lua'

The '.lua' part is added automatically if you don't add it.

Sooner or later you will start adding folders. Then you can do

Code: Select all

require 'afolder.asubfolder.blah'

Edit: Note that require only works 'the first time'. If for some reason you need to include the same file more than once, you can use dofile instead.

[xenogia]

Thanks Kikito, truly appreciated

[bartbes]

you can use dofile instead.

Actually, you can't, use love.filesystem.load("<filename>")().