Install

Tide comes as one command, tide, which builds and runs games. It has its C compiler built in (clang), for native and web games alike.

Windows

In PowerShell:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlenMiner/tide-engine/release/install.ps1 | iex

Windows needs nothing else: tide brings the headers and libraries games build with.

Linux and macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlenMiner/tide-engine/release/install.sh | sh

The installer uses curl, tar and python3. Native games also need the system's own headers and libraries:

• Linux (x64): your distribution's C development files, which come with gcc: sudo apt install build-essential on Debian and Ubuntu, sudo dnf install gcc on Fedora. Playing in rooms needs OpenSSL's libssl too, which nearly every distribution has, and so do the players of your game.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): Apple's command-line tools, xcode-select --install. Install them before tide: they bring the python3 the installer uses.

What the installer does

It installs tide for your user, in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Tide on Windows or ~/.tide elsewhere, and puts its bin folder on your PATH: the user's PATH on Windows, and elsewhere a line in your shell's profiles (~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile and the like, or fish's conf.d). It needs no admin rights. Open a new terminal afterwards so the PATH change applies, then check it worked:

tide version

This shows tide's version and channel, where it's installed, and which compilers it found.

The installer also adds Tide to the editors it finds (see Editors). If you run it again when tide is already there, it upgrades it instead, on the channel it's on unless you set TIDE_CHANNEL, and adds Tide to editors installed since.

Nightly versions

Stable versions come out now and then. Nightly versions follow development day by day. For a nightly version, set TIDE_CHANNEL before running the installer:

$env:TIDE_CHANNEL = 'nightly'
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlenMiner/tide-engine/release/install.ps1 | iex

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlenMiner/tide-engine/release/install.sh | TIDE_CHANNEL=nightly sh

Stay up to date

tide upgrade            # the newest version of your channel
tide upgrade --nightly  # switch to nightly versions
tide upgrade --stable   # back to stable ones

tide also tells you, at most once a day, when a new version is out. Upgrades check every download against the release's checksums.

tide upgrade only ever moves forward. Switching channels, or tide upgrade --version <v>, installs what you ask for, even an older version.

Uninstall

Delete the folder tide is in (tide version says where), and the line that puts its bin folder on your PATH: on Windows, in Edit environment variables for your account; elsewhere, the lines after # tide in your shell's profiles, or fish's conf.d/tide.fish. Remove the Tide extension from your editors as you would any other.