Get GNU FreeDink!

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

GNU/Linux
*BSD
MS Windows
OSX
PSP
iPhone/iPad?

Source code

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 package freedink

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

FreeBSD packages
Source code




MS Windows or MS Woe
(Why "woe"?)
New user:
Download the all-in-one
installer
Dink 1.08 user: install these in your Dink
directory:
FreeDink/FreeDinkedit
DFArc v3
FreeDink data



OSX

OSX packages
Source code




PSP - PlayStation Portable
In progress - 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...


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.
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]
So take action against
the iPhone and
the iPad!
Links:

Incompatibility with the GNU GPL license

(Tivoization and NDA):
  
  iPhone SDK Trumps GPL: No Open Source Software
  The iPhone SDK and free software: not a match
  Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix 
  On iPhone GPL software
  Wikipedia
  

Anti-competition:
  
  Apple Rejects iPhone App As Competitive To iTunes
  Apple just rejected the Google Voice iPhone application
  With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control'
  

DRM

  
  iPad DRM endangers our rights
  

Trusted Computing

  
  A movie about Trusted Computing
  




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.