Pingus

Introduction

Pingus is a free Lemmings™ clone for GNU/Linux, Win32 and other operating systems supported by SDL2. It is licensed under the GPLv3+.

Information about the game, new versions and additional documentation can be found at the Pingus webpage:

• https://pingus.github.io/

Building

Pingus uses Nix package manager, to automatically download, compile and run it in Linux:

nix run github:Pingus/pingus

Windows cross builds are produced from a Linux host (packages live under the host system, not under packages.*-windows):

nix build github:Pingus/pingus#pingus-win32-x64   # mingwW64 → x86_64 PE
nix build github:Pingus/pingus#pingus-win32-x86   # mingw32  → i686 PE

Zipped redistributables:

nix build github:Pingus/pingus#pingus-win32-x64-zip
nix build github:Pingus/pingus#pingus-win32-x86-zip

Mailing Lists

• pingus-devel - https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pingus-devel A list for discussing development issues, like level creation or code changes, but might as well be used for user issues like how to solve levels and such

Chat

• IRC: irc://irc.libera.chat:6667/#pingus

• Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#pingus:matrix.org

Bug Reports

Bug reports, new levels and feature requests can be submitted to the issue tracker at:

• https://github.com/pingus/pingus/issues

Ports (experimental)

Scaffolding adapted from SuperTux Milestone 1. These packages live under the host system (e.g. packages.x86_64-linux.…):

nix build .#pingus-r36s              # R36S / ArkOS aarch64 (sysroot)
nix build .#pingus-r36s-portmaster   # PortMaster tree for /roms/ports
nix build .#pingus-android           # APK (SDL layer + NDK)
nix build .#pingus-wasm              # emscripten + preloaded data/

Status: Nix packaging plus CMake hooks for Emscripten (SDL2_ROOT, PINGUS_USE_GLES, PINGUS_ENABLE_SOUND, html suffix / link flags) and R36S sysroot builds. WASM defaults to dummy audio (no wstsound). Full GLES2 / WebGL rendering and NDK builds of external/ are still incomplete — expect compile errors in the OpenGL fixed-function path until that is ported. Prefer desktop .#pingus and Windows cross for day-to-day builds.

See mk/r36s/CROSSCOMPILE.md, mk/android/README.md, mk/wasm/README.md.