I heard Lua is interactive. Is there some kind of interactive console available for LOVE games to try stuff in?

I built that, then I installed libmodplug, and got past automagic. either configure or make fails reporting luajit not found, so now I am attempting to build luajit, even though my system already has it according to apt-get (but I guess not the development files...?)

Well that helped it get further, but now I am building DevIL....

Raspbian. I started to build/install SDL2 because of the error that automagic threw, on a hunch, but I will try that link out.

During "automagic" I get:

configure.ac:54: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_SDL2

I built and installed SDL2 , SDL2_Image, and SDL2_Mixer (took forever)

Any help is appreciated.