Installation

Builds are published by hand on the Releases page, in form of portable archive bundles.

Requirements

CPU. Every published release targets x86-64-v3, which needs AVX, AVX2, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, LZCNT and MOVBE. In practice that means Intel from Haswell (2013) or AMD from Excavator (2015) onwards. Older hardware has to build from source with a lower -march.

Operating system. Windows releases need Windows 10 or 11. Linux will run as long as you have libstdc++14/libc++23 or higher on your system.

Updates

RPGMTranslate checks for a new release on startup (toggle this in Settings > Core), or on demand via Help > Check for Updates. If a newer version exists, you're asked to confirm before it downloads and installs anything - nothing happens automatically in the background.

Releases

Executables are compressed with:

upx --best --lzma --brute --ultra-brute --compress-exports=0

Release layout

Windows

Runtime data files

RPGMTranslate is portable. By default it writes three files next to the executable:

File	Purpose
settings.json	The settings file
rpgmtranslate.lock	Single-instance lock
rpgmtranslate.log	Log file for the current session

Set the RPGMTRANSLATE_DATA_DIR environment variable to move all three somewhere else:

RPGMTRANSLATE_DATA_DIR=/home/chuck-norris/.config/rpgmtranslate rpgmtranslate-qt

This matters when the executable lives somewhere unwritable - under /usr/local/bin, or in Program Files. If you are packaging RPGMTranslate for a distribution, set RPGMTRANSLATE_DATA_DIR globally, or patch the default in resolveDataDir() in src/utilities/Utils.cpp.

Licenses

Windows static releases bundle licenses of all libraries linked statically (including Rust dependencies, transitive dependencies) in licenses directory alongside the release.

THIRD-PARTY-NOTICE.md alongside the release is supplied to help you navigate to the desired license (if you ever want to see it).

On other platforms, only licenses of the in-tree header-only libraries are supplied.