A light fork of NetHack implementing the curses interface on top of SDL3 using a square font. The base game is unmodified.
Release builds will run on Windows XP.
Requires only a C toolchain and CMake, such as w64devkit. Downloads and compiles dependencies alongside NetHack. The Git submodules are unused and need not be cloned.
$ cmake -S sys/sdl3 -B build
$ cmake --build build
Produces a single executable with assets baked in. In "portable mode"
(NETHACK_SDL3_PORTABLE), enabled by default for Windows builds, save
data is written alongside the EXE.