The script in this git repository can be used (on a sufficiently old linux system) to extract LÓVE binaries, and turn them into a portable build in various different formats.

This project is split up into multiple parts, and each part is responsible for a different build. Note that the tarball build is used as a base for the other builds.

tarball

tarball contains a build script that extracts the love version currently installed on the system together with its dependencies to form a portable build. It also creates a small wrapper script that does the correct search path manipulations to be able to run the build.

Lastly, it contains the icon and a stubbed desktop file.

snap

snap builds.. well, a snap. Instead of using fancy build tools that try to do everything for you, why not just do it manually?! Seriously though, you can still use snapcraft to build this, but at that point it just acts like a fancy mksquashfs, and an extra dependency at that.

appimage

appimage builds AppImages, unsurprisingly. It uses binaries from AppImageKit, though you can build them yourself if you want to. And hey, this actually seems to work, too!