Step 1: Clone The Source Code

warning The commands listed here are for macOS and GNU/Linux users. Windows-specific instructions need to be written into this book.

• Go to the OpenRA engine's source code on GitHub

• Click the green "Code" button

  • If the modal has the text "Clone with HTTPS" now would be a good time to configure GitHub access via SSH, then redo this step

• Copy the presented URI (which should be git@github.com:OpenRA/OpenRA.git)

• Open your terminal and navigate to where you want OpenRA's source code to live on your machine

  • Learning exactly how to do this is out-of-scope for this book but the internet has many resources (such as this YouTube video)

• Clone the source to your machine

$ git clone git@github.com:OpenRA/OpenRA.git openra

• Verify that it was cloned successfully by ls-ing in the newly-created openra directory

$ cd openra
$ ls

You should see the same file structure as on GitHub.

Assuming everything looks correct you are ready to run the Red Alert mod...