# LEGO Racers, portable: porting the decompiled game across platforms

> LEGO Racers, portable adapts the 1999 game's decompiled source for Windows, macOS and Linux. It replaces Windows windowing, input, audio and rendering paths with SDL3 and miniaudio, and handles original AVI movies with an in-tree demuxer and Indeo 5 decoder.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/isledecomp/racers-portable>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/isledecomp/racers-portable/blob/eb26bee3a14f1100aa9c8661640839727b4a3638/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/lego-racers-portable-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/lego-racers-portable-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/lego-racers-portable-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An existing LEGO Racers copy with LEGO.JAM, TUN music files and AVI movies is required.
- **Scope:** Build with CMake; the documented desktop targets are Windows x64, macOS arm64 and Linux x64.
- **Limits:** The project is continuing work on additional platforms.
- **License:** LGPL-3.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/isledecomp/racers-portable/blob/eb26bee3a14f1100aa9c8661640839727b4a3638/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/isledecomp/racers-portable/blob/eb26bee3a14f1100aa9c8661640839727b4a3638/CLAUDE.md>

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