Cork 2 (Cape Canaveral)

⚠️ Work in Progress
This version of Cork is a full rewrite of the original in an entirely different language, and as such, is not 100% stable yet.

A fast, platform-agnostic and minimal bootstrapper for Roblox and Roblox Studio

Features

Fast & Lightweight

Cork was rewritten from the ground up to be as fast and as lightweight as possible, by opting for a compiled language and by dropping components such as the splash screen from the main program.

Mirror Selection

Whenever a version of Roblox starts being downloaded, Cork auto-selects the fastest mirror by running a small benchmark to attempt to get the fastest possible download speeds.

Customizable

Want to run Roblox with gamescope or inside of distrobox? Feel like changing some FFlags to mess about? Just do it, the settings are there, it's up to you to tinker.

Portable

Felt like trying to get Roblox to run on your Ampere Altra or your Talos II? Cork aims to make that easier for you. Every single part of the bootstrapper is modular and does not depend on any specific operating system or environment, compiles on any platform that supports modern versions of C++.

Supported Platforms

Operating System	Architecture	Runner	Support
Linux	x86_64	Proton / Wine	Stable
Windows	x86_64	Native	Experimental

Installing from Package

RPM and DEB packages are built with GitHub Actions for every commit, you can install those but they are experimental for now. Proper releases for those are coming soon!

Installing from Source

Dependencies

• Boost
• libzip
  • zlib
  • bzip2
  • xz
• OpenSSL
• cURL
• Lua

Installing dependencies and build tools on Fedora

sudo dnf install git cmake make automake gcc gcc-c++ rpm-build
sudo dnf install boost-devel libzip-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel xz-devel openssl-devel curl-devel lua-devel

Installing dependencies and build tools on Ubuntu

sudo apt install git build-essential cmake
sudo apt install libboost-all-dev libzip-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev liblzma-dev libssl-dev curl libcurl4-openssl-dev liblua5.4-dev

Building and Installing

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/CorkHQ/Cork.git
cd Cork

Preparing to Build

mkdir build
cmake -Bbuild -H. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCPR_USE_SYSTEM_CURL=ON

Building

cd build
cmake --build . --target all

Installing

cmake --install . --prefix ~/.local

Documentation

W.I.P

"Why should I use this over Grapejuice or Vinegar?"

Maybe you should, maybe you shouldn't. All of the current solutions for running Roblox on Linux offer something over the other, there is no better or worse one, use whatever suits you.

Acknowledgements

Heavily inspired and based on:

• Vinegar
• Grapejuice
• Bloxstrap
• Roblox Studio Mod Manager