Open source engine implementation of Stronghold by Firefly Studios. This project is currently in an early stage of development. Once completed, it should be able to replace all editions of classic Stronghold, including the HD remaster.

Stronghold is a castle sim created by Firefly Studios in 2001. It was released for Windows and supports MacOS since its HD remaster. The purpose of this project is to make Stronghold playable on platforms it didn't support originally. It is not intended to be a 100% accurate source port, so there will be differences.

After cloning the repository, make sure to run git submodule init and git submodule update to fetch cxxopts.

Run cmake in your build directory. If you're building on Windows or don't have the libraries in your pkg-config, use the -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/custom/path1/;/custom/path2/ option on the command line. Note that you have to give CMake absolute paths.

Sourcehold uses the following libraries:

• SDL2
• OpenAL
• FFmpeg (avcodec, avutil, avformat, swscale)
• zlib's blast for PKWARE decompression

Make sure you point Sourcehold to where your game data is located, which you can do using --path=/your/path or copy the files to a directory called data in the main folder of Sourcehold. The directory should look like this:

data
├── binks/
├── fx/
├── gfx/
├── gfx8/
├── gm/
├── help/
├── maps/
├── stronghold.mlb
├── sh.tex
├── delete.ani
├── hand.ani
├── jester.ani
└── sword.ani

This is either done by reading an existing Stronghold config file, found in your documents folder under Stronghold/stronghold.cfg, via command line or both. Options from the command line will overwrite the ones from the config. Available options are listed with the --help argument. You can also add your command line options to a file called settings.ini, in the form option=value.