Get GNU FreeDink!

GNU FreeDink is portable and available from a wide range of operating system. Pick yours:

If you want to test the version under develoment, you can also grab the latest snapshots.

GNU/Linux

From your distribution

The easiest way to install FreeDink is to get it from your distribution, check the distro versions. Note that it might not be the latest version.

Latest version from this website

These need a little bit more of effort to install.

  • Debian GNU/Linux and Debian-based: add to your sources.list (or Synaptic repositories): 
        deb http://www.freedink.org/releases/debian/ ./
    and install package freedink. Here's how to add new repositories to your system with Synaptic.
  • (Currently broken!) Fedora GNU/Linux and Fedora-based: add to your yum.conf: 
        [freedink]
    
    name=freedink
    
    baseurl=http://www.freedink.org/releases/fedora
    
    gpgcheck=0
    and install freedink package.
  • Gentoo: install the gentoo/ directory as an overlay, e.g.: 
        echo 'PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage-freedink"' >> \
    
    /etc/make.conf
    then start emerging! 
        emerge freedink

These files are located in the releases directory.

You can also use the source code.

*BSD

MS Windows or MS Woe

(Why "woe"?)

New user: Download the all-in-one installer (last updated 2010-09-20)

Dink 1.08 user: install these in your Dink directory:

OSX

PSP - PlayStation Portable

In development - download the beta version (forum).

To run FreeDink on PSP, you need to disable the "tivoization" that restrict you from running your programs on your hardware: indeed, by default a PSP only runs programs that are signed by Sony.

(This is possible for PSP 1000 "Fat" and PSP 2000 "Slim&Lite" only.)

More information...

AmigaOS4

Check HunoPPC's port at: os4depot.net.

OpenPandora

Check this unofficial port at: open-pandora.org. (We have no porter contact info about this one.)

XBox

Check this unofficial port, called "xDink" and made by "A600", at: this forum.

iPhone/iPad?

Well, you can't install the applications you want on iphone/ipad: the only way to distribute an application to those platforms is through their "AppStore" system.

However, "AppStore" is moderated by Apple, which may or may not accept us, and can kick us out at any moment . Their terms of service prevent developing GPLv3 applications. The "developper agreement" also imposes on us not to share any information about the iPhone OS, which brings legal incertainty to the port as we're sharing the source code (not to mention that we'd have to pay $99/year for it). In addition, you can't install your own modified (bugfixed, improved...) version of a free software app, nor even replace the operating system, hence this is hardly free software / open source development. Oh, and I almost forgot that they take 30% of all sales [1] [2] [3] .

In particular, this prevented Seth A. Robinson, the guy behind the original Dink Smallwood game, from using GNU FreeDink for his (in-development) iPhone port.

Another example is the GNU Go game that was removed from the App Store: [1] [2]

Yet another example is the VLC developer request to fix the TOS.

So take action against the iPhone and the iPad if you want the freedom to run whatever you want on the hardware you own!

Links:

Source code

The source code is the "recipe" of the FreeDink engine.

You can use it to recompile FreeDink for your platform, to study how it's made, or to improve upon it.

The source code is available from the official releases.

If you want the very latest source code currently in development, check the project page at GNU Savannah (the free software hosting service) and get it from the source repository.

Check the BUILD file for compilation instructions.