Building Lȍve (and dependancies) on a budget
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 4:38 pm
So I'm hoping to build a sort of hacked hybrid c++/Lua game engine out of Lȍve for a really graphics heavy project, in order to cut down on the lag when rendering simple tiles and because I like c++ more than Lua some days.
Now, the official tutorials recommend/require a standard installation of MSVS Enterprise 2013, but all I have is community 2017, which apparently has some differences - namely, as I ran into while trying to compile the dependencies, it does not define "Environment variable VSCOMNTOOLS" anymore, which the makefile depends on-? (don't quote me on this, I code but I'm completely lost when it comes to makefiles and dependencies )
I've searched the web multiple times with multiple queries, but there seem to be very few posts about manually compiling lȍve for when the initial make fails, so I have 2 questions:
#1. Is it even possible to build the dependencies with VS community 2017? Do I have to write in some code of my own? If so, is there a tutorial/post on it, or any advice?
#2. Is there a step-by-step (preferably video) tutorial on compiling the source somewhere, excluding the official one?
Thank you!
Now, the official tutorials recommend/require a standard installation of MSVS Enterprise 2013, but all I have is community 2017, which apparently has some differences - namely, as I ran into while trying to compile the dependencies, it does not define "Environment variable VSCOMNTOOLS" anymore, which the makefile depends on-? (don't quote me on this, I code but I'm completely lost when it comes to makefiles and dependencies )
I've searched the web multiple times with multiple queries, but there seem to be very few posts about manually compiling lȍve for when the initial make fails, so I have 2 questions:
#1. Is it even possible to build the dependencies with VS community 2017? Do I have to write in some code of my own? If so, is there a tutorial/post on it, or any advice?
#2. Is there a step-by-step (preferably video) tutorial on compiling the source somewhere, excluding the official one?
Thank you!