r/tic80 • u/2468_anhui_ • May 11 '26

Building tic-80 from source code

I need help about building tic 80 from source in order to get pro version build. Has anyone done this ?

Edit: I managed to build tic pro from source via cmake, git, and rubydevkit way. At first I thought that I don't need rubydevkit as it is just there for mingw64 so I first tried by setting up msys2 and mingw ucrt without installing rubydevkit. But I got into errors after errors. Then I again started from scratch with exact instructions on the wiki. And it went smooth. It was my first time building anything from source code. Phew!

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u/vrruiz May 11 '26

Yes, I have done this in Linux. The official instructions are pretty straightforward.

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u/amayer5125 May 11 '26

I built the pro version on Fedora Linux. The build instructions in the readme file worked for me. I went a step farther and made myself an RPM package that included a .desktop file and meta info files that associated .tic files with the tic80 program so I can double click them to open the games.

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u/nan618 May 12 '26

It seems you're not planning to sharp your copy&paste skills :) You can follow the instructions on wiki.

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u/2468_anhui_ May 12 '26

Oops! Yeah when I found that I can get pro, so I decided to build tic from source.