Megasource is a CMake-buildable collection of all LÖVE dependencies.
It is currently only officially supported on Windows, but may also work on macOS. It could certainly also work on Linux, but good package managers makes megasource less relevant there.
- Windows.
- LOVE 12+: Visual Studio 2019.
- LOVE 11 and older: Visual Studio 2013, 2015, or 2017. Official builds of LOVE 11 and older use Visual Studio 2013.
- CMake 3.1 or greater.
- NSIS if you want to build the LÖVE installer.
To build just the dependencies:
$ git clone https://github.com/love2d/megasource megasource
$ cd megasource
$ cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32 -H. -Bbuild
$ cmake --build build --target megatest --config Release
... or you can open the solution file in Visual Studio and build from there instead of invoking cmake --build.
Note, that -H had been replaced in CMake 3.13 with -S.
If you want to build LÖVE, clone LÖVE into the libs folder. Megasource will automatically look for it there. E.g.:
$ git clone https://github.com/love2d/megasource megasource
$ cd megasource
$ git clone https://github.com/love2d/love libs/love
$ cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32 -H. -Bbuild
$ cmake --build build --target love/love --config Release
The binaries can be found in build/love/Release.
If you want to build the installer, replace the previous build command with:
$ cmake --build build --target PACKAGE --config Release
A zip with the binaries and the installer will appear in build.