roguetech_macos_installer

Script to install RogueTech on macOS without relying on Wine.

Prerequisites

• A Steam install of Battletech (it should be easy to extend this to other distributions by extending the basic STEAM_INSTALL_DIR check, contributions welcome)
• mono
• git
• python3 - should be bundled with macOS
• json5 Python module
• xmltodict Python module

Optional for GUI

• rich Python module
• sshkeyboard Python module

The script checks for missing requirements and gives hints for how to install them.

Limitations

• The script does not support all install task methods, so some options may not be available even if they are manually enabled.
• The script ignores some of the install task attributes that may actually be needed. I have not run the actual RogueTechLauncher and do not know what things like difficultyModifier and influenceMode are meant to do, so if they're anything more than informational displays in the launcher itself, they're not wired up right now.
• The script does not provide any mechanism to uninstall. Outside of running ModTek /restore and deleting the Mod directory I'm not sure what else would need to be cleaned up.
• The RogueTechPerfFix does not seem to be compatible with my M1, resulting in a black screen after the ModTek loader (with "Press [ESC] to skip" if the mouse is moved). This persists for over 2 hours, so I assume it's a bug. The script skips installing the perf fix if it detects an ARM-based CPU, which seems to work on my machine.