This game has four external dependencies: OpusFile, Portaudio, OpenGL ES 2 and GLFW3. These can be installed on debian-based systems with this command: apt install libopusfile-dev portaudio19-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libglfw3-dev To build this game you also need CHICKEN 5, which can be downloaded here: https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2018/10/08/chicken-5.0.0rc3.tar.gz untar it and build it with this command: (replace PLATFORM=linux with PLATFORM=bsd or PLATFORM=macosx depending on your actual platform) make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=/tmp/chicken-5-build install This will install CHICKEN 5 in /tmp/chicken-5-build, you then have to set your PATH so that it is found by the rest of the system: export PATH=/tmp/chicken-5-build:$PATH Then you can build the game by running the build.sh script. ./build.sh And run it: ./main