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Good news, I can confirm that the .AppImage exporter for Linux works fine except for the application icons.

Excellent, thanks ivan!

Thank you. I will need help with learning how to change the icons, especially on the Mac.

I am releasing all of the source code so that anybody can install the builder on their own server:
https://github.com/2dengine/lovebuilder

The Linux build fails when an icon is supplied. The error message says the icon must be PNG or SVG format. Which is weird because it's the same PNG icon I used for Windows (can't confirm success since I'm on Linux) & Web (doesn't apply?) builds.

EDIT - The web build seems to fail? I've got a web server setup on my Linux dev system. I copied the .web folder to /var/www/html/ and navigate to localhost/wordie.web/ (or localhost/wordie.web/index.html). I just get a black screen with a red circled X. Any idea what the failure is? Any special requirements for the web version? I haven't dabbled with that as of yet, so this is *completely* untested.

PS - I haven't tried Mac build at all.

milon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:41 pm The Linux build fails when an icon is supplied. The error message says the icon must be PNG or SVG format. Which is weird because it's the same PNG icon I used for Windows (can't confirm success since I'm on Linux) & Web (doesn't apply?) builds.

I am going to need help with this because it is not covered in the Love2D documentation.
What is the proper way to change the love2d icons for Mac and Linux?

milon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:41 pm EDIT - The web build seems to fail? I've got a web server setup on my Linux dev system. I copied the .web folder to /var/www/html/ and navigate to localhost/wordie.web/ (or localhost/wordie.web/index.html). I just get a black screen with a red circled X. Any idea what the failure is? Any special requirements for the web version? I haven't dabbled with that as of yet, so this is *completely* untested.

The web version works, but you have to install it on an Apache server. If you are using Nginx you will probably get the following error:

The normal version can throw Uncaught ReferenceError: SharedArrayBuffer is not defined. Fix is discussed here. TL;DR Enable the following HTML reponse headers on the website you're hosting your project on:

https://github.com/Davidobot/love.js/
The provided .htaccess file handles this issue on Apache.
I don't have a fix for Nginx at this moment but I will try to look into it in the future.

See the screenshots - Apache is installed and running, and wordie.web is in the expected location. When I go to localhost/wordie.web it asks for local storage permission (granted), and then it gives the black error screen with useful info. I'm running Apache2. Is that okay?

And I have no idea how to change icons on Linux, sorry.

Milon, as I said earlier - you need to have the provided .htaccess file present in the game directory. Please rebuild the game and make sure the provided .htaccess file exists in your game directory.

I have removed the error messages popup in the standalone version of the player on purpose. You can see the error log in your browser using "Developer Tools > Console"

ivan wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 9:41 am Milon, as I said earlier - you need to have the provided .htaccess file present in the game directory. Please rebuild the game and make sure the provided .htaccess file exists in your game directory.

Sorry, that was unclear to me. It is still unclear, actually. Where is the "provided" .htaccess file? I don't see any links to it, nor do I see one in Davidobot's repo.

Did you rebuild the game as I pointed out in the last post? The .htaccess file should be located inside the base directory of the produced file ("your_game.web.zip"). The Love builder uses the standalone version of the Love2D player which is different from Tanner/Davidobot's original repository.