Dæmon is the standalone engine that powers the multiplayer first person shooter Unvanquished.

Windows	macOS	Linux

ℹ️ We provide ready-to-use downloads for the Unvanquished game on the Unvanquished download page, builds of the Dæmon engine are included.

ℹ️ The repository of the source code for the game logic of Unvanquished can be found there.

To fetch and build Dæmon, you'll need: git, cmake, and a C++14 compiler.

The following are actively supported: gcc ≥ 9, clang ≥ 11, Visual Studio/MSVC (at least Visual Studio 2019).

Required: zlib, libgmp, libnettle, libcurl, SDL2, GLEW, libpng, libjpeg ≥ 8, libwebp ≥ 0.2.0, Freetype, OpenAL, libogg, libvorbis, libopus, libopusfile.

Optional: ncurses.

MSYS2 is the recommended way to build using MinGW on a Windows host.

Required packages for 64-bit: mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc, mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake, make
Required packages for 32-bit: mingw-w64-i686-gcc, mingw-w64-i686-cmake, make

Daemon requires several sub-repositories to be fetched before compilation. If you have not yet cloned this repository:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/DaemonEngine/Daemon.git

If you have already cloned:

cd Daemon/
git submodule update --init --recursive

ℹ️ If cmake complains about missing files in libs/crunch/ folder or similar issue then you have skipped this step.

💡️ Instead of -j4 you can use -jN where N is your number of CPU cores to distribute compilation on them. Linux systems usually provide a handy nproc tool that tells the number of CPU core so you can just do -j$(nproc) to use all available cores.

Enter the directory before anything else:

cd Daemon/

1. Run CMake.
2. Choose your compiler.
3. Open Daemon.sln and compile.

Produced files will be stored in a new directory named build.

cmake -H. -Bbuild
cmake --build build -- -j4

💡️ For a 32-bit build use the cross-toolchain-mingw32.cmake toolchain file instead.

cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/cross-toolchain-mingw64.cmake
cmake --build build -- -j4

ℹ️ On Windows you'll have to use daemon.exe and daemonded.exe instead of ./daemon and ./daemonded, everything else will be the same.

To run a game you would need a pkg/ folder full of .dpk files provided by the Dæmon-based game you want to run. This pkg/ folder has to be stored next to the daemon binary.

You then run the game this way:

./daemon

If you want to run a dedicated server, you may want to use the non-graphical daemonded server binary and start a map this way:

./daemonded +map <mapname>

Map names and other options may be specific to the game.