Development builds¶
Warning
These are unstable development snapshots intended for testing and showcasing new features; if you want to download a stable build, head on to the Linux, Windows, or macOS download pages.
Build artifacts are hosted on GitHub; you need to be logged in to download them.
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¹ macOS builds include Intel, Apple silicon, and universal binaries.
² Windows builds include 32 and 64-bit portable ZIP variants.
Installation notes¶
Testing new features might require a manual reset of the configuration
file. DOSBox Staging builds use a configuration file named
dosbox-staging.conf located in:
| Linux | ~/.config/dosbox/ |
| Windows | C:\Users\USERNAME>\AppData\Local\DOSBox\ |
| macOS | ~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox/ |
Linux¶
The tarball contains a dynamically-linked x86-64 build; you’ll need additional dependencies installed via your package manager.
Fedora¶
sudo dnf install SDL2 SDL2_net opusfile
Debian, Ubuntu¶
sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-net-2.0-0 libopusfile0
Arch, Manjaro¶
sudo pacman -S sdl2 sdl2_net opusfile
Windows¶
Windows executables in snapshot packages are not signed, therefore Windows 10 might prevent the program from starting.
See this guide to learn how to deal with this.
macOS¶
macOS development builds are not notarized (but the public releases are); Apple Gatekeeper will try to prevent the program from running.
See this guide to learn how to deal with this.