games/boswars 2.8 OpenBSD

real-time strategy game

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System: OpenBSD
Repository: OpenBSD ports
Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Last update: 2026-08-31
Commit: 7262ccd860
Categories: games, x11, lang/lua, lang/python

Description

Bos Wars is a futuristic real-time strategy game. It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or against the computer. It aims to create a completely original and fun open source RTS game.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add boswars

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/games/boswars && make install

Dependencies

Build dependencies 2

lang/lua/5.1
lang/python/3

Run dependencies 5

audio/libvorbis
devel/sdl
graphics/png
lang/lua/5.1
multimedia/libtheora

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-08-31

7262ccd860

daniel

update boswars to 2.8

Includes official Python 3 support, removes BDEP on scons and fixes the included images so that we don't need to adjust them manually with optipng anymore.