Librelancer / Librelancer

A re-implementation of Freelancer

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

Windows

Prerequisites:

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

Steps:

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

Powershell security issues can be troubleshooted here.

Linux

Prerequisites:

• .NET 8.0 SDK
• SDL2
• OpenAL
• gcc and g++
• CMake
• GTK3, Pango and Cairo headers

Steps:

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

Screenshots

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