Running/Compiling Löve without graphics?

[Germanunkol]

Hi,

I want to write a gameserver for my game. Ideally, I'd like it to use as much of the code that I have already written as possible. Also, it will need threads to run correctly and do everything I want to do.
I was planning on only using plain Lua, since most of the server-side functions don't use löve at all. But the threading has been giving me headaches. The threading solution I liked the most (Lua Lanes) won't run/compile and seems out of date. Other threading options don't truly thread - they only use coroutines.

So I started to write my own C++ code which should call Lua functions in seperate threads. However, I really like the way Löve does Threads, and I'd love to stick to it. That's why I was wondering: Is it possible (and does it make sense to) compile only a part of Löve (namely, the threading part)? Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks...

[Nixola]

Does disabling every LÖVE module inside conf.lua work?

[Inny]

This probably won't answer your question, but if you can get luaposix working, it has fork() available, and you can go multi-process. Though, it doesn't have the type of message-passing interface that lanes or LOVE does, you'd have to talk through a basic file stream, which means writing annoying framework functions.

I personally wouldn't accept this solution, so consider it just an all-else-fails fallback.

[Germanunkol]

Thanks to both of you for your answers!

The conf.lua trick worked wonders. It runs the game without graphics and at the same time I can still communicate with the game using io.write() and typing in the console.
Awesome, thank you!
Now I just have to check if I can get all this to work on my Rasberry Pi when I get it

[qaisjp]

Good luck, Young 'un.

[Inny]

Thats amazing, I'm going to have to try it out myself. I imagine though that there would be a few server-side dependencies that might need to be met. If you're just going to run a windows sever, then you can ignore the rest of my comment. Running a Linux server would require SDL to install love2d, which would probably pull in some X requirements. You can probably get away without running X on the server, but it's typically considered a strange thing to pull in.

At any rate, high five on the conf.lua solution.