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JayArtist
October 16th, 2013, 07:33 PM
Hi,

I'm keen to get into the Love:
http://love2d.org/

But I'm having issues with launching/running code - I'm just not feeling the 'love' :(

I've followed the tuts here and there online, but I'm unable to launch a home-made program.

I'm using ubuntu 13.04 and installed Love through the Software Centre (so I haven't done anything weird) - if I launch 'Love' through the menu (unity) the piggy with hearts appears in a window. If I run the supplied 'examples' with the love extension i.e. "examples.love", they launch and work fine.

But if I create my own "Hello World" I always get the same error:

boot.lua:335: No code to run
Your game might be packaged wrong.... etc.

Now I know all noobs probably get the same issue because they package the external folder when they shouldn't - in this case I haven't, 'main.lua' is in the root of the archive and should run, but it doesn't.

I've tried two methods to run, one, by double clicking on the file, up pops the error above in a nice blue window.
I've also tried launching from the Terminal in the directory i.e. 'love myapp.love', but the same error.

Any ideas what to do guys?

JayArtist
October 17th, 2013, 12:48 PM
Solved, it was a stupid typo .lau, when it should have been .lua - anyho ;)