Librelancer

A re-implementation of the 2003 Space Game Freelancer in C# and OpenGL.

Currently running on Windows and Linux (macOS pending maintainer) Pull Requests are welcome!

Support Librelancer on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/librelancer

Download compiled binaries from https://librelancer.net/downloads.html

General Requirements

GPU must be capable of OpenGL 3.1+
A Freelancer installation (Vanilla recommended, some mods may work)

Build Instructions

Note for developers: .\build.ps1 or build.sh must be ran before opening the .sln file, as it generates required files for the solution.

Windows

Prerequisites:

64-bit Windows 10 or newer
Visual Studio 2022 with:
- .NET 8.0 SDK
- Desktop C++ Development Workflow
CMake

Steps:

Clone this repository with all submodules (Visual Studio's Team Explorer, Git bash, etc.)
Run build.ps1 in Powershell. (Can be launched from cmd by powershell -File .\build.ps1)

Troubleshooting:

If you run into issues with Powershell execution policies, you can bypass them with powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\build.ps1

If you have installed both the 32-bit and 64-bit dotnet SDKs, your PATH can be in an invalid state and the build will fail. This can be checked with where dotnet.exe in the command prompt. If it returns output like:

> where.exe dotnet
C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\dotnet.exe
C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe

You need to either uninstall the 32-bit dotnet SDK (recommended), or modify your PATH so the 64-bit SDK appears first in the list.

Linux

Prerequisites:

.NET 8.0 SDK
SDL2
openal-soft
gcc and g++
CMake
GTK3, Pango and Cairo headers

Steps:

Clone this repository with git clone --recursive https://github.com/Librelancer/Librelancer
Run build.sh

Nix

If you are using the Nix package manager, you can use the provided shell script to easily acquire all the packages. You can do so by running the nix-shell --pure command then running ./build.sh.

Screenshots

See: https://librelancer.net/screenshots.html