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FreeOrion is available as precompiled point releases for Windows XP, statically-linked Linux binaries, and a MacOSX universal binary.  The source code may also be downloaded and [[compile|compiled]] for Linux, WinXP or MacOSX.
 
FreeOrion is available as precompiled point releases for Windows XP, statically-linked Linux binaries, and a MacOSX universal binary.  The source code may also be downloaded and [[compile|compiled]] for Linux, WinXP or MacOSX.
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Please note that '''FreeOrion requires OpenGL 2.0''' or later.
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With OpenGL support less than 2.0, the program might run and show the introduction / title screen, but crash when starting a game, or might require some rendering options to be disabled, or might crash immediately on startup, depending on your particular graphics hardware and drivers.
  
 
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Point releases for 32-bit Windows XP or Windows Vista can be downloaded from [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75752 SourceForge].
 
Point releases for 32-bit Windows XP or Windows Vista can be downloaded from [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75752 SourceForge].
  
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Please note that on Windows XP, '''The Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the .NET Framework 2.0 (or later) are required to run FreeOrion'''.  FreeOrion doesn't use any .NET code or features, but the Visual Studio compiler adds this dependency regardless.
* '''FreeOrion requires OpenGL 2.0''' or later.  With lower versions of OpenGL, the program might start, but crash when starting a game, or might require some rendering options to be disabled, or might crash immediately on startup, depending on your particular graphics hardware and drivers.
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* On Windows XP, '''The Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the .NET Framework 2.0 (or later) are required to run FreeOrion'''.  FreeOrion doesn't use any .NET code or features, but the Visual Studio compiler adds this dependency regardless.
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The .NET Framework 2.0 can be installed by by running Windows Update, selecting "Custom", then "Optional, Software", then ".NET Framework 2.0".  Alternatively, it may be downloaded from [http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5 Microsoft] directly.  More recent .NET Framework versions should also work.
 
The .NET Framework 2.0 can be installed by by running Windows Update, selecting "Custom", then "Optional, Software", then ".NET Framework 2.0".  Alternatively, it may be downloaded from [http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5 Microsoft] directly.  More recent .NET Framework versions should also work.

Revision as of 21:14, 7 June 2009

FreeOrion is available as precompiled point releases for Windows XP, statically-linked Linux binaries, and a MacOSX universal binary. The source code may also be downloaded and compiled for Linux, WinXP or MacOSX.

Please note that FreeOrion requires OpenGL 2.0 or later.

With OpenGL support less than 2.0, the program might run and show the introduction / title screen, but crash when starting a game, or might require some rendering options to be disabled, or might crash immediately on startup, depending on your particular graphics hardware and drivers.

Windows XP and Vista

Point releases for 32-bit Windows XP or Windows Vista can be downloaded from SourceForge.

Please note that on Windows XP, The Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the .NET Framework 2.0 (or later) are required to run FreeOrion. FreeOrion doesn't use any .NET code or features, but the Visual Studio compiler adds this dependency regardless.

The .NET Framework 2.0 can be installed by by running Windows Update, selecting "Custom", then "Optional, Software", then ".NET Framework 2.0". Alternatively, it may be downloaded from Microsoft directly. More recent .NET Framework versions should also work.

Point releases are built for 32-bit Windows, but have been reported to work on 64-bit systems after replacing the python25.dll in the FreeOrion directory with the Python 2.6 version (renamed python25.dll).

The Windows XP Freeorion v0.3.1-RC5 point release has been reported to run on Windows 2000. There's a good chance later Windows releases will as well.

Linux

Statically linked binaries are available in this forum thread, and may be avaialble from SourceForge for the latest FreeOrion point release. Generally the versions in the forum thread are more up-to-date, but numbered releases on SourceForge more closely match the content of the Windows releases.

These binaries have been tested on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, Ubuntu 8.10, Debian Lenny, Debian 4.0 Etch and Debian Sid, and may work on other distributions as well. They should also run on x86_64 linux if ia32 libs are installed. OpenGL 2.0 or later is required and without it, running freeorion may cause segmentation faults.

RPM packages are available for FreeOrion v0.3.11 (SVN revision 2732) for Mandriva Linux. See this forum post for a link.

Mac OSX

Binaries for Intel Mac OSX are available on sourceforge. As of v0.3.13, two .zip parts must be downloaded, and unpacked with the unpack-MacOSX script, all of which are available as sourceforge downloads.