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Posted by Henry McLaughlin (twitter: @henrythescot)
February 17th, 2012 10:14 pm
Change of plans regarding my miniLD entry.
I recently rediscovered Love2D and have fallen in love with it again.
I’m going to use Love2D instead of Pygame. I just… like it more. 
Because I can distribute a Love2D game with the Love2D binary, I’m not going to need help with packaging! 
I… do know that Love2D can produce an exe, but since I’m on Linux it’d produce a Linux executable. I’ll provide a package with just the Love2D package for folks who already have it and then packages with the Love2D binaries for each platform. That way everybody’s happy (hopefully!)
Again, though…
Microgames, microgames, microgames.
Peace, love, and a simpler approach,
- Henry
You can produce the Windows exe on linux too. What you need to do is the following :
- Grab the Windows zipped 32-bit on the https://love2d.org/ website.
- Unzip the file, you need the love.exe file along with all the *.dll files
- copy your *.love file to the zipped folder
- go to the unzipped folder and run the command : “cat love.exe #name of your game#.love > windows-version.exe”
- Distrubute this newly created exe file along with the dll files.
“Compiled” love games are in fact a concatenation of the love executable and the game files into a single executable file.
I don’t have a mac handy to test, but the same should apply there too.