Cork

A fast, platform-agnostic and minimal bootstrapper for Roblox and Roblox Studio

Features

Fast & Lightweight

Cork was rewritten from the ground up to be as fast and as lightweight as possible, by opting for a compiled language and by dropping components such as the splash screen from the main program.

Mirror Selection

Whenever a version of Roblox starts being downloaded, Cork auto-selects the fastest mirror by running a small benchmark to attempt to get the fastest possible download speeds.

Extensible

Cork ships with a built-in Lua interpreter for plugins, allowing great portions of the launcher to be changed and allowing features like automatic DXVK installation to be added relatively easily.

Customizable

Want to run Roblox with gamescope, inside of distrobox or Box64 for some non-x86 action? Feel like changing some FFlags to mess about? Just do it, the settings are there, it's up to you to tinker.

Portable

Felt like trying to get Roblox to run on your Ampere Altra or your Talos II? Good luck with that, but Cork has got you covered on at least getting the launcher built. Every single part of the bootstrapper is modular and does not depend on any specific operating system or environment, compiles on any platform that supports modern versions of C++.

Supported Platforms

Operating System	Architecture	Runner	Support
Windows	x86_64	Native	Full
Linux	x86_64	Proton / Wine	Bootstrapper-only

Documentation

W.I.P

Building from Source (Windows)

Requirements

Visual Studio 2022
CMake
Git
vcpkg

Building

Cloning the Repository

git clone https://github.com/CorkHQ/Cork.git
cd Cork

Preparing to Build

mkdir build
cmake -Bbuild --preset release-vcpkg

Building

cmake --build build/ --preset release-vcpkg --config Release

Resulting binaries will be located in the build/src/Release directory on the Cork source folder.

Installing from Package (Linux)

RPM and DEB packages are built with GitHub Actions for every commit, you can install those but they are experimental for now. Proper releases for those are coming soon!

Building from Source (Linux)

Dependencies

Boost
libzip
- zlib
- bzip2
- xz
OpenSSL
cURL
Lua (optional, required for plugin support)

Installing dependencies and build tools on Fedora

sudo dnf install git cmake make automake gcc gcc-c++ rpm-build
sudo dnf install boost-devel libzip-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel xz-devel openssl-devel curl-devel lua-devel

Installing dependencies and build tools on Ubuntu

sudo apt install git build-essential cmake
sudo apt install libboost-all-dev libzip-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev liblzma-dev libssl-dev curl libcurl4-openssl-dev liblua5.4-dev

Building and Installing

Cloning the Repository

git clone https://github.com/CorkHQ/Cork.git
cd Cork

Preparing to Build

mkdir build
cmake -Bbuild --preset release

Building

cmake --build build/ --target all

Installing

cmake --install build/ --prefix ~/.local

Libraries

Cork makes use of the following libraries:

Acknowledgements

Heavily inspired and based on: