Configuration

Note

If you're looking for help with the lover.toml file, see project configuration.

The Lover configuration is stored in:

• Linux, MacOS ~/.local/share/lover/config.toml
• Windows: %appdata%\lover\config.toml

Fields

build

[build] contains settings of the building process.

• always_zip: Should release targets that contain multiple files be zipped.

[build]
zip = false

run

[run] contains settings of how the games a ran.

Important

These settings only affect games that are ran with lover run. They do not affect exported games.

• prime: Will make the game run on the dedicated GPU, and thus faster.

[run]
prime = true

software

[software] contains paths to the software used by Lover

Also see the software page.

• love: The Love2D binary. Used for running Love2D games.
• luac: Lua compiler, used for parsing scripts
• appimage: Used for creating the Linux .AppImage file
• wine: Compatibility layer for Windows apps on Linux, used to run rcedit
• rcedit: Used to apply version info and icon to built EXE files
• smdhtool: Used for creating the .smdh app info file on the 3DS
• threedsxtool: Used for creating the .3dsx executable file

[software]
love = "love"
luac = "luac"
appimagetool = "appimagetool"
wine = "wine"
rcedit = "idk/somewhere/rcedit"
smdhtool = "/opt/devkitpro/tools/bin/smdhtool"
threedsxtool = "/opt/devkitpro/tools/bin/3dsxtool"
threedslink = "/opt/devkitpro/tools/bin/3dslink"

Why not 3dsxtool, but threedsxtool and so on?

Rust (programming language used by Lover) doesn't support using numbers as the first character of identifiers and will throw an error otherwise. The configuration is stored in a struct which uses identifiers instead of string fields.

Nerdy stuff.