LöveFTW - preview release

[T-Bone]

I decided to create a new thread for the actual releases of LöveFTW. Please keep any discussion and feedback about it here!

What is LöveFTW?
LöveFTW (short for "Löve For The Windows", clever right?) is a port of Löve to Windows Apps (currently Universal 8.1 Apps), allowing you to target both Windows 8.1 (as a "Metro" app) and Windows Phone 8.1.

What kind of release is this?
The current release is a preview release. There are some known issues, and it hasn't been tested very much yet. Your help with testing is highly appreciated! It does run, fairly well too (well, it's a little slow on WP, but usable, and it should be possible to improve). If you want to target Windows 8.1 Metro and/or Windows Phone, you can absolutely already try it, and most things will probably work (Hat Cat is, for example, fully playable on my Lumia 920).

Where can I get it?
Here! The bitbucket page contains instructions for setting it up and running as well. If anything is unclear, let me know!

Pics or it didn't happen!
Fine!



How was this implemented?
It's based on love-mobile-common, and has very few changes to the Löve source code. The main challange getting where the project is now has been to get all Löve's dependencies to play nice with WinRT's limitations. In other words, not much "writing code" but very much "messing in Visual Studio to get stuff to compile" This also means that most things should work very similarly to the Android and iOS ports.

FAQ
Q: We're a big software company and this project really impressed us! It's come to our attention that you're about to graduate as a software engineer soon. Do you want to work for us?
A: I'll think about it.

[SiENcE]

Congrats! Nice to see more mobile ports of LÖVE.

LÖVE is getting stronger and stronger .

[DLudwig255]

This looks very cool. Nice work on the port(s)!

-- David L.

[deathbeam]

Wouldn´t Windows Universal apps run also on XBOX?

[T-Bone]

Wouldn´t Windows Universal apps run also on XBOX?

Windows 10 Apps should, yes, but not 8.1 ones. The details on exactly how this will work are not revealed yet, We'll learn more at the BUILD conference (which is in like 10 days). My guess is that you're still going to need an ID@Xbox certification to release stuff there, but we'll see.

[gianmichele]

Well, first of all congratulations on the port!!!

Don't have any windows device or pc to test, but I'm sure you'll get plenty of feedback. Can't wait to see this become official as well.

Is it based on the 0.9.2 or 0.10.0 branch?

[T-Bone]

Well, first of all congratulations on the port!!!

Don't have any windows device or pc to test, but I'm sure you'll get plenty of feedback. Can't wait to see this become official as well.

Is it based on the 0.9.2 or 0.10.0 branch?

This is based on 0.9.2 (the love-mobile-common branch, so it shares almost all code with the Andorid/iOS ports).

[unek]

I think I've done everything correctly, app builds and runs just fine, but instead of my game I see a black screen (right after the splash screen).
Running Windows Phone 8.1.

Game works just fine on Windows 8.1 x64.

What can be the reason?

edit: here's some logs

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'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe'. Symbols loaded.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\NTDLL.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\COMBASE.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\PROGRAMS\WINDOWSAPPS\Microsoft.VCLibs.120.00.Phone.Debug_12.0.30113.0_arm__8wekyb3d8bbwe\vccorlib120d_app.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\PROGRAMS\WINDOWSAPPS\Microsoft.VCLibs.120.00.Phone.Debug_12.0.30113.0_arm__8wekyb3d8bbwe\msvcr120d_app.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\freetype-WinPhone.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\OpenAL.wp8.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\libvorbisfile.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\zlib-WinRT.WindowsPhone.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\PhysFS-WinRT.WindowsPhone.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\SDL2.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\PROGRAMS\WINDOWSAPPS\Microsoft.VCLibs.120.00.Phone.Debug_12.0.30113.0_arm__8wekyb3d8bbwe\msvcp120d_app.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\WS2_32.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\MSVCRT.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32LEGACY.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\MINCOREDLOAD.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\OLEAUT32.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\XAUDIO2_8.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\PhoneAudioSes.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\libogg.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\libvorbis.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\DXGI.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\D3D11.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\PhoneAppModelHost.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\NSI.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\CFGMGR32.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\AVRT.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\AudioRtgClient.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\GDI32.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\EMClient.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\CoreMessaging.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\TaskHostSvcs.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\SECHOST.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\ZTrace.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\MINUSER.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\SecRuntime.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\ModernApiExtHost.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32LEGACY.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\phoneinfo.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\SSPICLI.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\PCWUM.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\AgHostSvcs.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\SHCORE.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL.APPCORE.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\PhoneBrokerClient.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\WINTYPES.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
The thread 0x9ac has exited with code 0 (0x0).
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTBASE.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\BCRYPTPRIMITIVES.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\CoreApplicationShim.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\TWINAPI.APPCORE.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\PsmApp.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTSP.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\RSAENH.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\BCRYPT.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\ProcThreadExtHost.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\wpcoreutil.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\AppModelProxy.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\CoreUIComponents.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\orientation.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\ShellChromeAPI.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\AppChromeAPI.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\ACTXPRXY.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\MRMCORER.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\BCP47LANGS.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\WINDOWS.UI.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\NINPUT.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\DCOMP.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\DWMAPI.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
First-chance exception at 0x776659A3 in LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: Cn::XH at memory location 0x0131E770.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\Windows.UI.Core.TextInput.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\TextInputFramework.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\Windows.Phone.Devices.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\WINDOWS.GRAPHICS.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
First-chance exception at 0x776659A3 in LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: Cn::XH at memory location 0x0131E460.
First-chance exception at 0x776659A3 in LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: Cn::XH at memory location 0x0131E728.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\StorageProxy.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\WINDOWS.APPLICATIONMODEL.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\WINDOWS.STORAGE.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\SHLWAPI.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\PROPSYS.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\WINDOWS.STORAGE.APPLICATIONDATA.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\THREADPOOLWINRT.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\MMPhoneDeviceApi.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\MMDEVAPI.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\DEVOBJ.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\AUDIOSES.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\POWRPROF.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\libGLESv2.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\D3DCOMPILER_47.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'U:\SharedData\PhoneTools\AppxLayouts\54a0f6cc-2b70-4315-a3c7-1ee6a07dbbcaVS.Debug_ARM.ja\libEGL.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\DXGIDebug.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\qcdx9um8930.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\Msvcr110.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\D3D10LEVEL9.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\qcvidum8930.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\d3d11_2SDKLayers.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\qca3xxcompiler8930.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\Msvcp110.dll'. Symbols loaded.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\PacManClient.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\CompClient.dll'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'LoveFTW.WindowsPhone.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\system32\WINDOWSCODECS.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
D3D11: Removing Device.
D3D11 ERROR: ID3D11Device::RemoveDevice: Device removal has been triggered for the following reason (DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG: The Device took an unreasonable amount of time to execute its commands, or the hardware crashed/hung. As a result, the TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) mechanism has been triggered. The current Device Context was executing commands when the hang occurred. The application may want to respawn and fallback to less aggressive use of the display hardware). [ EXECUTION ERROR #378: DEVICE_REMOVAL_PROCESS_AT_FAULT]
err: rx::SwapChain11::swapRect(638): Present failed: the D3D11 device was removed: 0x887A0006
The thread 0xd84 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

and here's my "game":

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function love.draw()
  local t = 128 + math.sin(love.timer.getTime() * 4) * 127
  love.graphics.setColor(t, 255, 255 - t)
  love.graphics.rectangle("fill", 0, 0, love.graphics.getDimensions())
  love.graphics.setColor(0, 0, 0)
  love.graphics.print(love.timer.getFPS(), 5, 5)
end

[I~=Spam]

IDK know what is happening but it seems like the app isn't being packaged corrected because essential files cannot be found... But you say it works on you win8 computer... that is strange.

[T-Bone]

IDK know what is happening but it seems like the app isn't being packaged corrected because essential files cannot be found... But you say it works on you win8 computer... that is strange.

Hm, I don't think that's the case, it seems to be able to find all the .dll files at least.

From the logs, it looks like DirectX hangs, I'm not why though... It's not very informative.

I'll try to see if I can reproduce the bug. In the meantime, here are some things you can try:

1. Run the game without your .love and see if the no-game screen works.
2. Rebuild the app.
3. If your hardware is compatible, try running it in the emulator. It works fine there for me.
4. Try running in Release instead of Debug.