Naikari is a 2-D creative exploration-driven space trading and mercenary sandbox game.

You assume control of a space ship and can customize your ship more or less however you want. Use your ship to explore the galaxy and uncover its secrets. Do you stay in the safety and comfort of the familiar Empire, or travel to learn about the secluded Crimson Coälition and the mysterious Sol system? Or perhaps you turn to piracy, or join the enemies of the Empire. The choice is yours.

Naikari's dependencies are intended to be relatively common. In addition to an OpenGL-capable graphics card and driver with support for at least OpenGL 3.1, Naikari requires the following:

• SDL 2
• SDL2_image
• libxml2
• freetype2
• libpng
• libwebp
• OpenAL
• libvorbis >= 1.2.2
• intltool
• python3
• ninja
• libunibreak (included)
• SuiteSparse (included)

If you're cross-compiling for Windows, you must install this soft dependency:

• physfs, example package name mingw-w64-physfs

Install compile-time dependencies on Debian 10 or later, or Ubuntu 18.04 or later, with:

sudo apt install build-essential ninja-build autopoint intltool \
    python3-pip \
    libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxml2-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev libwebp-dev libopenal-dev libvorbis-dev \
    libfontconfig-dev  libluajit-5.1-dev libphysfs-dev \
    libunibreak-dev libsuitesparse-dev
sudo pip3 install meson

Warning: this procedure is inadequate if you want to build a Naikari.app that you can share with users of older macOS versions than your own.

Dependencies may be installed using Homebrew:

brew install freetype gettext intltool libpng libvorbis luajit meson openal-soft physfs pkg-config sdl2_image suite-sparse

Building the latest available code in git is recommended, but to build version 0.8 you can add sdl2_mixer (and autoconf-archive and automake if using Autotools to build).

Meson needs an extra argument to find Homebrew's openal-soft package: --pkg-config-path=/usr/local/opt/openal-soft/lib/pkgconfig. If build may fail if suite-sparse is installed via Homebrew, citing an undefined reference to _cs_di_spfree. A workaround is to pass --force-fallback-for=SuiteSparse. (These arguments may be passed to the initial meson setup or applied later using meson configure. In the later case, make sure to run meson configure --clearcache to work around bugs in Meson. For 0.8/Autotools, set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable before running ./configure.)

See https://github.com/naikari/naikari/wiki/Compiling-on-Linux for package lists for several distributions.

Naikari requires the artwork submodule to run from git. You can check out the submodules from the cloned repository with:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Note that git submodule update has to be run every time you git pull to stay up to date. This can also be done automatically by setting the following configuration:

git config submodule.recurse true

After checking out submodules (see above), run:

meson setup build .
cd build
meson compile
./naikari.sh

If you need special settings you can run meson configure in your build directory to see a list of all available options.

For installation, try: meson configure --buildtype=release -Db_lto=true

For Windows packaging, try adding: --bindir=bin -Dndata_path=bin

For macOS, try adding: --prefix="$(pwd)"/build/dist/Naikari.app --bindir=Contents/MacOS -Dndata_path=Contents/Resources

For normal development, try adding: --buildtype=debug -Db_sanitize=address (adding -Db_lundef=false if compiling with Clang, substituting -Ddebug_arrays=true for -Db_sanitize=... on Windows if you can't use Clang).

For faster debug builds (but harder to trace with gdb/lldb), try --buildtype=debugoptimized -Db_lto=true -Db_lto_mode=thin in place of the corresponding values above.

Naikari currently supports meson install which will install everything that is needed.

If you wish to create a .desktop for your desktop environment, logos from 16x16 to 256x256 can be found in extras/logos/.

See https://github.com/naikari/naikari/wiki/Compiling-on-Windows for how to compile on windows.

Art assets are partially stored in the naikari-artwork-production repository and sometimes are updated. For that reason, it is recommended to periodically update the submodules with the following command.

git submodule update

You can also set this to be done automatically on git pull with the following command:

git config submodule.recurse true

Afterwards, every time you perform a git pull, it will also update the artwork submodule.

If you are a developer, you may need to update translation files as text is modified. You can update all translation files with the following commands:

meson compile potfiles           # necessary if files have been added or removed
meson compile naikari-pot        # necessary if translatable strings changed
meson compile naikari-update-po  # necessary if translatable strings changed

This will allow you to edit the translation files in po/ manually to modify translations.

If you like, you can set up commit hooks to handle the potfiles step. For instance:

# .git/hooks/pre-commit
#!/bin/bash
. utils/update-po.sh

# .git/hooks/post-commit
#!/bin/sh
git diff --exit-code po/POTFILES.in || exec git commit --amend -C HEAD po/POTFILES.in

Please take a look at the FAQ before submitting a new bug report, as it covers a number of common gameplay questions and common issues.

If Naikari is crashing during gameplay, please file a bug report.