Burralis Game Launcher

A game launcher for World of Warcraft that allows you to connect to custom servers with a valid tls certificate attached.

License & Contributions

Licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for full license information.

Important Scope & Limitations

This launcher has a very strict and intentionally limited feature set.

What is not included

• No developer mode
• No mod loading
• No experimental or legacy features
• No support for deprecated client branches

What This Launcher Can Do

• Launch modern World of Warcraft clients
• Connect to custom servers with a valid TLS certificate attached
• Allow custom client version & cdn urls
  Useful for launching older clients or serving data from your own CDN

Supported Clients

Client Branch	Min Supported Version	Max Supported Version
Mainline	10.1.5	12.0.5
Classic Era	1.14.4	*
Classic	3.4.2	5.5.3
Classic Anniversary	2.5.5	*
Classic Titan	3.80.0	*

* = all future versions in that branch (unless otherwise stated)

NOTE FOR SERVER CONNECTIONS

• A valid certificate matching your authentication/bnet server host name. That certificate needs to be loaded by the authentication/bnet server too

Platform Support

Platform	Architecture	Implementation	Verification
Windows	x64	Existing .NET/Win32 launcher	Native publish command below
Windows	arm64	.NET NativeAOT with win-arm64	.github/workflows/windows-arm64.yml
macOS	arm64	Native SwiftUI launcher	.github/workflows/macos-arm64.yml

The macOS implementation details, local commands, and versioned .app/.dmg artifacts are documented in macos/README.md.

Building

Build Prerequisites

• .NET Core SDK 10.0.0 or later
• Optional for native builds: C++ workload through Visual Studio 2026 or latest C++ build tools

Build Instructions Windows (native)

• Execute dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c Configuration -p:platform="x64" -p:PublishAot=true
• Native output is placed in the build folder.
• Windows ARM64: execute pwsh -NoProfile -File scripts/publish-windows-arm64.ps1 on a Windows ARM64 build host. The script publishes NativeAOT output to build/Release/win-arm64/<VERSION>, verifies the resulting PE machine type, and writes a .sha256 checksum beside the executable.

The Windows ARM64 workflow runs on windows-11-vs2026-arm, verifies both the native runner architecture and the published PE machine type with scripts/verify-windows-arm64.ps1, and uploads the NativeAOT publish output. macOS can cross-build the managed arm64 configuration, but .NET NativeAOT does not support cross-OS native compilation.

Usage

Windows Usage

1. Copy Burralis Game Launcher.exe to your World of Warcraft folder.
2. Edit the WTF/Config.wtf to set your portal or use a different config file with the -config Config2.wtf launch arg.
3. Run the Burralis Game Launcher.exe

Launch Parameters

Use --help