Yes, LÖVE can load binaries. There are a few things to consider. You say the dynamic library is in a compressed archive. The OS will never load a binary out of a Zip and the LÖVE binary loader does not automatically extract it for you. It's necessary to write the library to an actual file with love...

I have, in my .love file, a library named 'gd.dll'. The first line of code in my program is gd = require "gd" This returns the error message that the library is not found. In the list of places it checked, it says no file was at '.\gd.dll', which happens to be exactly where gd.dll currentl...