A.k.a. D2TM. Is a Dune 2 remake.

• Website: https://dune2themaker.fundynamic.com
• Discord: https://dune2themaker.fundynamic.com/discord
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/dune2themaker

Report bugs via Discord, Twitter or add one in Github.

Read the wiki for more information about startup params, controls, and more.

• CMake version 3.21 or higher
• GCC version 14 or higher

Make sure you can run make (or ninja) from command line.

It currently depends on MinGW32. Make sure you also have GCC 14 installed, which you can do via MSYS2 (using pacman). GCC 14 is not installed by default in MinGW32!

• git clone this project
• create a build dir

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake .. -G "MinGW Makefiles"
    cmake --build . --target all -- -j 6

If you use ninja you can use cmake .. -G Ninja instead.

Once compilation is done you'll end up with a d2tm.exe file and several DLL's.

• git clone this project
• run ./install_dependencies_ubuntu.sh (only required once)
• create a build dir

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake ..
    make -j4

• git clone this project
• run ./install_dependencies_macosx.sh (only required once)
• create a build dir

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake ..
    make -j4

Make sure you set up your toolchain to use gcc-15 and g++-15. Ie, change your default toolchain OR create a new one (and make sure CMake points to that one), with the following values:

Then make sure to (re)load CmakeLists.txt

Run create_release.bat (Windows) or ./create_release.sh (Linux/macOS) once after building to produce a complete runnable package in bin/, including all required dependencies. Then run the executable from bin/.

D2TM plays music from MIDI files via FluidSynth. FluidSynth requires a General MIDI soundfont (.sf2) to render audio — without one, music is silent.

Install a soundfont:

• Linux: sudo apt install fluid-soundfont-gm (installs to /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2)
• macOS / Windows: Download FluidR3_GM.sf2 or GeneralUser GS and place it anywhere.

Point the game at it:

Set the SDL_SOUNDFONTS environment variable to the path of your .sf2 file before launching:

export SDL_SOUNDFONTS=/path/to/FluidR3_GM.sf2   # Linux/macOS
set SDL_SOUNDFONTS=C:\path\to\FluidR3_GM.sf2    # Windows

Add the export line to your shell profile (~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc) to make it permanent.

See the Project Board what's going on.

You have various options:

• Grab the latest release from Github
• Grab a version from D2TM's homepage
• Compile this project yourself

In the code there are several known concepts; see below for extra information about them:

• Angles: how to calculate and use them to draw things