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L5 is free open source software available for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS.

L5 programs run using LÖVE (also called Love2d), a free, open-source framework. You'll need to download both L5 and LÖVE to get started.

Install overview

Step-by-step install guides:

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux

Quick start:

1. Download Love2d
2. Download the L5 Starter project and extract it
3. Open main.lua in any text editor and start coding (a starter program is already there)
4. To run: drag the L5-starter folder onto the Love application, or run from command line/IDE. See Getting Started for details.

Downloads

L5 Starter Project (Recommended)

This compressed folder contains the L5.lua library, a starter main.lua file (with require('L5') already included), and a README.

Download L5 Starter project

Individual Downloads

Latest version: Download L5.lua

Stable release (v0.1.5): Download L5.lua v0.1.5

Source code

The L5 repository is accessible for anyone interested in viewing or modifying the L5 source code. See contributing for ways to contribute to the library or this site.

Offline Documentation

This L5 documentation site is available for download to run offline, with or without images.

• Download L5lua.org with images (8MB ZIP)
• Download L5lua.org without images (2MB ZIP)

After downloading, extract the ZIP and serve the folder with a local web server.

• For a quick local server, navigate to the extracted folder in your command line and run python -m http.server (Python 3) or python -m SimpleHTTPServer (Python 2).

Running your programs

To get started running L5 check out Getting Started or the tutorials to learn more.