Can't get started

[Rishavs]

Hi all
I know this puts a teeny question mark on my abilities as a buddinggame dev but i can't get started. -_-
i created the basic first program as given in the documentation but dragging the folder onto Love.exe has no effect. nothing happens.

any help will be appreciated.

regards
RIshav

[Robin]

I'm can't tell, really, but I think you might have dragged the wrong folder. It must directly contain main.lua. Another way of launching the game is to open a terminal window in the project directory, as such:

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C:\my\leet\project\> DIR
main.lua
<etc>
C:\my\leet\project\> love .

[Rishavs]

Thanks for the reply Robin. But i am dragging the correct folder. Also, on putting "love" in the command prompt, i am getting the message that 'love' is not a recognizable external or internal command.

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i can however open the *.love example files by double clicking them so the extension is well registered.

[Robin]

I think that means the love executable is not in your path. If you have installed LOVE in the directory above, you could try "..\love ."
Maybe that'll at least show what the problem is.

[Rishavs]

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nothing

[Robin]

Odd. Could you read stderr.txt and stdout.txt? They might provide clues as to what went wrong.

[Rishavs]

I have added them as attachments. I didn't really know which parts are useful.

[Rishavs]

ok. i got it to run by converting the two files into a .love archive.
but drag n drop and command line still dont work for me.

[Robin]

This line is key:

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Game (C:\Program Files\LOVE\Sxxource/love) does not exist.

For some reason, it looks for arg1/love. I never had that problem, neither on Windows or Linux... most peculiar.

Putting all your game stuff in C:\Program Files\LOVE\Sxxource\love, and calling "..\love ." in C:\Program Files\LOVE\Sxxource might be a workaround.

[Rishavs]

i have only two files. i am on my very first baby step. ^_^
i did what you suggested in the last few replies. -_-