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Windows

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

  2. Double-click on the make.cmd file in the OpenRA-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. Download Cake, extract it to a folder and the add the path to the folder to the PATH system variable ("My Computer" > "Properties" > "Advanced" > "Environment Variables" > "Path"). (See http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm for more detailed instructions.)

  9. 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. If you don't know the value of the variable %USERPROFILE%, press the Windows key + R, type cmd, in the opened Command Prompt write echo %USERPROFILE%.

  10. You will be asked for the path to your OpenRA installation. Write the path where you extracted OpenRA in step 1 of this guide, where make.cmd from step 2 of this guide is located. Example: If you extracted OpenRA's OpenRA-bleed folder in step 1 of this guide on the Desktop, you should write: C:\Users\your_username\Desktop\OpenRA-bleed, where C:\Users\your_username is the value of variable %USERPROFILE%.

  11. Now you'll be asked several times if you want to copy a file. Always press "y".

  12. Now you can go to the OpenRA OpenRA-bleed folder and launch the game with OpenRA.exe.

  13. If the game crashes when trying to load the RA2 mod, copy the file OpenRA.Mods.RA2.dll from %USERPROFILE%\Documents\OpenRA\mods\ra2\OpenRA.Mods.RA2\bin\Debug to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\OpenRA\mods\ra2. This should fix the problem.

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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