OpenRA/INSTALL.md

To run OpenRA, several files are needed from the original game disks. A minimal asset pack can also be downloaded and installed by the game.

The following lists per-platform dependencies required to build from source.

Windows

• .NET Framework >= 4.0 (Client Profile)
• Cg Toolkit >= 2.2 (optional, for Cg renderer)
• SDL 1.2 (included)
• SDL 2 (optional)
• FreeType (included)
• zlib (included)
• OpenAL (included)

To compile OpenRA, open the OpenRA.sln solution in the main folder, or build it from the command-line with MSBuild.

Copy both the native DLLs from .\packaging\windows and the CLI images from .\thirdparty to the main folder.

Run the game with OpenRA.Game.exe Game.Mod=ra for Red Alert or OpenRA.Game.exe Game.Mod=cnc for Tiberian Dawn.

Linux

To grab the bundled CLI DLLs type make dependencies. To compile OpenRA, run make all from the command line. Run with either launch-game.sh' or mono --debug OpenRA.Game.exe'.

Type 'sudo make install-all' for system wide installation. You can then run from the openra shortcut.

Debian/Ubuntu

• mono-dmcs
• libmono-winforms2.0-cil
• cli-common-dev (>= 2.10)
• freetype
• openal
• sdl
• nvidia-cg-toolkit (optional, for Cg renderer)

Slackware

The following packages from slackbuilds.org are required, on 13.37 32-bit:

• libgdiplus
• mono
• openAL
• nvidia-cg-toolkit (optional, for Cg renderer)

openSUSE

• mono-devel
• openal
• freetype2
• SDL
• cg (optional, for Cg renderer)

Gentoo

• dev-lang/mono
• dev-dotnet/libgdiplus
• media-libs/openal
• media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit (optional, for Cg renderer)