Game Distribution (using Linux)

[MarekkPie]

I've read the Game Distributiom page on the wiki and I am still having a bit of trouble. The executable I make just loads the default Love screen (the spinning flower thing in space). I have the .lua files in the same directory. Is there something I need to do to those files in order to get the executable to recognize them?

I am working in a Linux environment, so instructions tailored to that would help.

[Robin]

What steps did you follow exactly? Did you make a .love first?

[MarekkPie]

(I'll be using an old version of Gluttony just in case something horrible happens).

O.K., from the top:

In the directory ~/Desktop/fivesecondgame/, I have one file: fivesecondgame.love.
I test the .love file, and it plays.
I extract fivesecondgame.love, so now I have 4 files in the directory: the .love file, and the three .lua files.
From there I run the command on the Wiki:

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cat /usr/bin/love fivesecondgame.love > fivesecondgame && chmod +x fivesecondgame

Now I have 5 files in the directory: the .love file, the three .lua files, and the executable.
Then I load the executable:

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./fivesecondgame

And I see the spinning flower.

Even if I double-click the executable on the GUI side, it gives me the spinning flower.

[Nixola]

Maybe (not tried) you have to call the .love file game.love
EDIT: tried, doesn't work

[Robin]

Hm, perhaps that was the version which broke that mechanism. I can't remember, but I think it's fixed in 0.8.0, which should be released any day now.

[bartbes]

0.7.1 had broken fusing.. iirc.

[lexfiend]

I'm using version 0.7.2 on Ubuntu 10.10, and am creating self-contained executables with no issues.

In the directory ~/Desktop/fivesecondgame/, I have one file: fivesecondgame.love.
I test the .love file, and it plays.

What is the exact command that you used to test the .love file?

I extract fivesecondgame.love, so now I have 4 files in the directory: the .love file, and the three .lua files.

What is the output of unzip -v fivesecondgame.love?

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cat /usr/bin/love fivesecondgame.love > fivesecondgame && chmod +x fivesecondgame

What is the output of file /usr/bin/love, and how large is the fivesecondgame executable?

[josefnpat]

I know this is kind of a necropost, but it might help MarekkPie

Check out this script of mine to build for osx, windows and linux:

https://github.com/josefnpat/doctorcatt ... r/build.sh

To run the linux app, you'll need love installed, but that's only because I haven't gotten around to making a script to output .deb files.