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+Compiling LoveToken is near trivial since it only needs iconv and C99.
+Build an object file from lt.c and link it with iconv into a dll/so/etc.
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+LoveToken is a tokenizer made for usage with LOVE2D's (LuaJIT) FFI.
+It also works just as well in C or C++, or really anything that can load C functions.
+See COMPILING.txt for info on compiling.