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Wolfyxon edited this page Nov 10, 2024 · 13 revisions

If you use Linux, most of those packages should be available in your distribution's package manager

sudo apt install package
sudo pacman -S package
sudo dnf install package

Run time

Software for testing your project.

Love2D

Required to run your project and the exported .love file.

Manual download

Luac from Lua

Luac is needed for checking the validity of your scripts. It's packaged with Lua.

It's useful, but not required to run or build your game, as it can simply skip the checking process.

Manual download

Build time

Software for building your project.

RCEdit

Used for applying info to EXE files.

In future this will most likely be replaced by an internal Lover feature.

Download

Important

Unless you put RCEdit in a executable directory or modified your PATH variable, please add the RCEdit's location to the Lover config file

[software]
rcedit = "whatever/somewhere/rcedit"

Wine

(Only required for Linux)

Required to run RCEdit as it's only a Windows program.

Also see 'failed to commit changes' on the troubleshooting page. You may encounter issues in RCEdit.

OS

Lover is officially supported on Windows and Linux, but it technically should work on other platforms, if compiled from source.

If you own an unsupported platform and are willing to test and maintain Lover support, I'd highly appreciate that!

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