At the time of the most recent official release, NetHack 3.6, it had
been tested to run/compile on:
- Intel Pentium or better running Linux, BSDI, or
- Windows 10 to 11
- Intel 80386 or greater boxes running Linux, or BSDI
- macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) to 12 (Monterey) (follow the instructions
- in sys/unix, not sys/mac)
- OpenVMS (aka VMS) V8.4 on Alpha and on Integrity/Itanium/IA64
+ Intel Pentium or better running Linux, BSDI
+ Intel Pentium or better running Windows 10 or 11
+ Intel-based, or Apple M1 or M2 Macs running macOS 10.11 (El Capitan)
+ to 12 (Monterey) (follow the instructions in sys/unix)
Intel 80386 or greater running MS-DOS with DPMI
- built via Linux-hosted djgpp cross-compiler
+ built via djgpp compiler (native or Linux-hosted cross-compiler)
+ OpenVMS (aka VMS) V8.4 on Alpha and on Integrity/Itanium/IA64
Previous versions of NetHack were tested and known to run on the
following systems, but it is unknown if they can still build and