LÖVE

Here's a guess: you have to enable viewing extensions, then change the file extension. Another one is that you have simply not removed the .zip part from the end.

How do you enable viewing extensions ??? i think that might be the problem as i confident i have removed the .zip at the end.

edit: i have managed to create a .love file , but it shows a black screen when trying to open it, instead of showing the program .... any idea's why ?

Main.lua should be main.lua

Hello everyone!

I've recently began trying to package my game into an executable to let my friends try it out. I followed all the instructions in the game_distribution page and the executable created just fine for the first time. Every time after that, the executable wouldnt work! it kept saying "no game is found". when I extract the bad executable, it looks different from what the good executable copy looks like when I extract the good copy. I continue to use "copy /b love.exe+SuperGame.love SuperGame.exe" in my command prompt (i'm using windows 64bit) to keep trying to create the executable. It continues to fail but for some reason, after like 20-30 tries, I get a good working copy! Any insight on how to fix this problem and have a good working copy every time would be much appreciated. Thank you

omnione wrote:Hello everyone!

I've recently began trying to package my game into an executable to let my friends try it out. I followed all the instructions in the game_distribution page and the executable created just fine for the first time. Every time after that, the executable wouldnt work! it kept saying "no game is found". when I extract the bad executable, it looks different from what the good executable copy looks like when I extract the good copy. I continue to use "copy /b love.exe+SuperGame.love SuperGame.exe" in my command prompt (i'm using windows 64bit) to keep trying to create the executable. It continues to fail but for some reason, after like 20-30 tries, I get a good working copy! Any insight on how to fix this problem and have a good working copy every time would be much appreciated. Thank you

it'd be great if you could confirm this, so i can update it on the wiki, but i think you actually need to attach SuperGame.zip rather than SuperGame.love? i was rewriting my build script yesterday and noticed i couldn't get it work with attaching the love file to the exe. could that be your problem?

That shouldn't matter as long as the .love is really a renamed .zip. If it's another format (e.g. a renamed rar file), then it won't work.

i'm using "cat" in git bash (windows) so i can't be sure it's not just weird behaviour, but i couldn't get it to work unless i used the .zip extension

hey Ragzouken and slime,

Yes, I tried appending the love.exe with my game using both a .love and .zip extension but neither of the extensions produce a working executable of my game. I have not tried using the git bash extension. I currently used a command prompt window and copy /b love.exe+Game.love Game.exe. If you could, I would definitely appreciate your solution using "cat" with git bash. Thanks!

i only use gitbash because it's convenient for me, copy /b should work just as well! (it's just "cat love.exe game.zip > game.exe" btw)

btw just realised what my problem was - when i create a .love using my script it doesn't know what archive type to use from the extension and picks 7z

I tried using the "cat love.exe supergame.love > supergame.exe" and "cat love.exe supergame.zip > supergame.exe" but they both don't work for me. =/ Git bash says it cannot find supergame.love or supergame.zip. For some reason, copy /b love.exe + supergame.love supergame.exe still doesn't work. Thanks though!