LÖVE

Hi,

I'm keen to get into the Love, but I can't

I've followed the tuts hear and there online, but I'm unable to launch a home-made program.

I'm using ubuntu 13.04 and installed Love through the Software Centre (so I haven't done anything weird) - if I launch 'Love' through the menu (unity) the piggy with hearts appears in a window. If I run the supplied 'examples' with the love extension i.e. "examples.love", they launch and work fine.

But if I create my own "Hello World" I always get the same error:

boot.lua:335: No code to run
Your game might be packaged wrong.... etc.

Now I know all noobs probably get the same issue because they package the external folder when they shouldn't - in this case I haven't, 'main.lua' is in the root of the archive and should run, but doesn't.

I've tried two methods to run, one, by double clicking on the file, up pops the error above in a nice blue window.
I've also tried launching from the Terminal in the directory i.e. 'love myapp.love', but the same error.

Any ideas what to do guys?

Sounds like you're trying to load main.lua instead of the directory it's located in.

Try this: Open a terminal, go to the directory where main.lua is located and then type (Mind the dot)

Typing "love" into the Terminal in the directory of the 'main.lau' file, it naturally justs launches Love with the piggywiggy as I said before.

As for "loading 'main.lau' instead of the directory it's located in" makes no sense, could you explain futher what you mean please Lafolie?

Jay-H wrote:Typing "love" into the Terminal in the directory of the 'main.lau' file, it naturally justs launches Love with the piggywiggy as I said before.

That's why I wrote this command: in words: love + space + dot

Jay-H wrote:Typing "love" into the Terminal in the directory of the 'main.lau' file, it naturally justs launches Love with the piggywiggy as I said before.

As for "loading 'main.lau' instead of the directory it's located in" makes no sense, could you explain futher what you mean please Lafolie?

It is main.lua, not main.lau - I hope you got it right.

It had to be a stupidly simple thing, yep, just a typo on my part. Thanks Miko

When you feel comfortable with LOVE, I would suggest trying out the ZeroBrane studio in my signature. In the software, you have to specify where your project folder is, but after that, it will run your software from clicking with your mouse or running the project from within the software itself.

In case you didn't know, you can rename a ".zip" file into ".love" and it will run in Windows or Ubuntu Linux just fine as long as the LOVE library is loaded onto the appropriate system.

Also note that Ubuntu's built-in text editor, gedit, has support for running arbitrary commands from key combinations. So you can tell it to run the command "love ." whenever you hit a key combination (I use Ctrl+Shift+L). That way, you can easily launch any LÖVE project you're working on as long as all the .lua files are in the same directory.

Jay-H wrote: As for "loading 'main.lau' instead of the directory it's located in" makes no sense, could you explain futher what you mean please Lafolie?

Often we see people that people are greeted by the Rubber Pig instead of their awesome project because they target the main.lua file instead of the directory it's located within (see [wiki]Getting Started[/wiki]).It is a common error for beginners to make.