[Question] How to share ?

[MangelMaxime]

Hello, I just discovered this repo and I am interested in using it but I have a question.

How can we share a game made with luasdl2 ? Is this possible to create some sort of installer ? Or self containing folder ?

[Tangent128]

The particulars are outside the scope of this project, and there are probably far more complete resources available elsewhere, but you can package up a Lua application into a folder, yes.

I believe you'll need to include:

• the Lua interpreter (and libraries if it needs them)
• the luasdl libraries (with correct folder structure to make imports work)
• your code (same note re: fodler structure)
• the SDL libraries
• any other libraries you might use
• a launch script to set the right search paths.

If on Linux or OSX, read up on LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ldd. On any system, read up on how Lua searches for modules.

[MangelMaxime]

Hum, ok. So the idea is the package all the libraries and lua requirement in one folder. Thanks for the information :)