Love Builder - Automatic .love and Executable Creation

[BlackBulletIV]

I've written a little Ruby script that can automatically create .love files and merged executables on Mac and Linux. See the the GitHub repo for the script and more information.

Tell me what you think.

[BlackBulletIV]

Anybody got any comments on this?

[vrld]

I like my Makefile better, because:

• it doesn't need ruby (which I don't have installed),
• it's shorter,
• it integrates nicely into vim and, most importantly
• i can write make love.

[EMB]

Anything for windows folks?
I really need an executable creator...

[Robin]

Anything for windows folks?
I really need an executable creator...

Why do you need it? The beauty of LÖVE is that it doesn't need things like that.

Anyway, a batch file like the following would work?

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copy /b love.exe+game.love game.exe

(As seen on the wiki.

[BlackBulletIV]

I like my Makefile better, because:

• it doesn't need ruby (which I don't have installed),
• it's shorter,
• it integrates nicely into vim and, most importantly
• i can write make love.

Looks good. But the reason it's shorter is because it doesn't do error printing (does make handle that or something?) and it doesn't create merged executables for Mac/Linux.

EDIT: I've added an (untested) Windows version merging.

[EMB]

Robin, have you actually tried that method? It doesn't work. So don't patronise me.
Damn, looking at the Ruby it just uses the method from the wiki. T.T No executable for windows ppl.

[BlackBulletIV]

Well I know that method has worked for others. I'll have to pull up my Windows virtual machine and give it a shot sometime.
The program is just a wrapper for the process; although the main reason I created is because, 1) .love building is a often repeated exercise, and 2) merging executables on Mac is more complicated than on other systems (if you want the more secure way).

[EMB]

If it makes any difference, I am on a 64-bit machine so that might be the problem.

[BlackBulletIV]

It may well be. I'm not sure if it's at all relavent, but I've had "bit problems" when using luac on a Mac (because it's 32bit on a Mac).