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Windows

  1. Download the zipped OpenRA developer build from https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/archive/bleed.zip. Extract it into a folder of your choice (for example, in a folder named Bleed on the Desktop).

  2. Double-click on the make.cmd file in the Bleed folder on the Desktop. This will open a black command line prompt.

  3. Type dependencies.

  4. Relaunch make.cmd and type all.

  5. Download the zipped RA2 mod from https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2/archive/master.zip. Extract the contained folder into a folder of your choice (for example, on the Desktop).

  6. Rename the extracted folder from ra2-master to ra2.

  7. Cut this ra2 folder and paste it into %USERPROFILE%\Documents\OpenRA\mods\.

  8. In the Explorer, go to your %USERPROFILE%\Documents\OpenRA\mods\ra2\ folder and double-click on the make.cmd file. This will open a black command line prompt.

  9. Type dependencies C:\Users\your_username\Desktop\Bleed\, where C:\Users\your_username\ is the value of variable %USERPROFILE%.

  10. Relaunch make.cmd and type all.

  11. Now you can go to the OpenRA Bleed folder and launch the game with OpenRA.exe.

Unix

A. Build OpenRA

mkdir ~/build
cd ~/build
git clone https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA.git
cd OpenRA
make dependencies
make

B. Build RA2

cd ~/build/OpenRA/mods/
git clone https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2.git
ln -s ~/build/OpenRA/mods/ra2/OpenRA.Mods.RA2 ~/build/OpenRA/OpenRA.Mods.RA2
cd ~/build/OpenRA/OpenRA.Mods.RA2/dependencies
ln -s ../../Eluant.dll ~/build/OpenRA/OpenRA.Mods.RA2/dependencies/Eluant.dll
ln -s ../../OpenRA.Game.exe ~/build/OpenRA/OpenRA.Mods.RA2/dependencies/OpenRA.Game.exe
ln -s ../../mods/common/OpenRA.Mods.Common.dll ~/build/OpenRA/OpenRA.Mods.RA2/dependencies/OpenRA.Mods.Common.dll
ln -s ../../mods/ra/OpenRA.Mods.RA.dll ~/build/OpenRA/OpenRA.Mods.RA2/dependencies/OpenRA.Mods.RA.dll
ln -s ../../mods/ts/OpenRA.Mods.TS.dll ~/build/OpenRA/OpenRA.Mods.RA2/dependencies/OpenRA.Mods.TS.dll
cd ~/build/OpenRA/OpenRA.Mods.RA2
xbuild

C. Fetch some game content without original CD and install automatically.

bash ~/build/OpenRA/mods/ra2/fetch-content.sh

D. Run the game

bash ~/build/OpenRA/launch-game.sh

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