lil-evil/lovit

love2d + luvit ? yes can do

Lovit

love2d and luvit on same runtime

These two lua runtime are both for different purpose, one for games, and the other for servers.

I tried to add luvit to love, and nailed it (still it may have some bugs, or game performances drops)

This was just a fun thing to do, but if some a y'all find a good reason to make a stable version of lovit (since love already include luasocket natively, a relatively good fs api...), then share your idea with me! (my discord : little#8291)

How to use

Coding your game with lovit

When creating your game and testing, you just nee to put the src folder, renamed as lovit into your game's root folder

You can see an example in the example folder ( you will need to copy lovit along side with the example games, and run it with a console open)

before using luvit's modules, you will need to add the following line

require("lovit/init")()

It can take parameters :

require("lovit/init")({
    custom_luvi = string,           -- provide your own path to luvi library.
                                    -- be aware this cannot be inside of the .love archive !

    load_dns = boolean,             -- load the dns resolver. default: true
    overwrite_require = boolean,    -- if it overwrite require with lovit.require. default: true
    auto_seed = boolean,            -- weither to seed math.random. default: true
    seed = number,                  -- seed to use fot math.random. default: os.time()
    throw = boolean                 -- allow the init script to throw an error default: false
                                    -- init always return state, error.
})

Then you need to allow luv to do his work :

local lovit = require"lovit"

function love.update()
    -- your game's update
    lovit.update()
end

function love.quit()
    lovit.quit()
end

With this, luv share your game ressource and this allow you to skip luv update when your game's update is slowed.

Release your game with lovit

Don't do that unless you're sure of this to work. I'm not responsible if your game crash at some points.

If you need to provide your game in a .love format or in appimage (which I higtly advice against since it not stable and no testing was done ! ) you will need :

to read this

• For any .love format or love executable concatenated with the .love archive:

  Put the correspondible luvi-*.so or luvi-*.dll file alongside the executable (or in a lua/love search path). For Windows, the .dll files in distribution/windows/ must be included too (on linux they would be provided by the package manager)

• For an appimage

  Use whatever way to create a valid love appdir that suit you more, and add you game's executable wherever you want, and dont forget to put the corresponding luvi-**.so for the targeted platform in the lua search path (e.g. share/luajit-*/luvi-*.so )

When distributing your game you can get rid of lovit/distrubution/ and lovit/luvi-* since they are provided here for testing you game, and take alot of place

if you want to compile your own luvi library, you can find my luvi fork here (just follow the regular build tutorial, i automaticaly compile a shared library)