NLarn is known to build on Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.

This list is mainly meant as an overview. The operating system specific build instructions explain how to get these.

• A decent C compiler. Development mainly happens with GCC, clang is also known to work.
• GNU make
• A curses library that includes the panels library (Ncurses and PDCurses are known to work)
• GLib
• Pandoc
• pkg-config
• zlib

sudo dnf install pandoc make gcc git ncurses-devel glib2-devel zlib-ng-devel
# When building with SDLPDCURSES=Y
sudo dnf install SDL2-devel SDL2_ttf-devel

sudo apt install pandoc gcc git libncurses-dev libglib2.0-dev make zlib1g-dev
# When building with SDLPDCURSES=Y
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev

Install required packages (this list applies to a default FreeBSD 11.2 installation):

pkg install hs-pandoc glib git gmake pkgconf

Install Homebrew. Installation instructions can be found on the Homebrew page. When homebrew is installed, you can install the required packages:

brew install pandoc dylibbundler glib ncurses pkg-config sdl2 sdl2_ttf

pkg_add pandoc glib2 git gmake

Build the game with make (or gmake on the BSDs).

make help

explains the available options.