Downloads

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. Love2d is a game framework, just like Godot, Unity, or Unreal. You will use Love2d to run your L5 scripts. This is similar to using a browser to run HTML code.

Covered by this download tutorial:

• Download and Install Love2d
• Download and Open L5 Starter Folder

Step-by-step install guides

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux

Congratulations! You've now installed Love and have L5 on your computer and verified you can run your own programs.

Now your computer you are ready to write and run your L5 programs.

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.

Latest version of L5.lua: Download L5.lua

Offline Documentation

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

• Download L5lua.org with images (12mb 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).