After ~6 months of on and off development we have published a first version of BWAPI for OpenBW.
This will allow bot developers to develop bots and run games on linux. It provides several advantages over the at times cumbersome setup with the original BW and represents a milestone towards completion of the BW AI IDE module.

As a reminder, the BW AI IDE module aims to provide an integrated environment for bot developers to apply machine learning techniques to BW out of the box. It will run on both linux and windows and all of its components will be free (currently, all but the original MPQ files containing unit data, artwork, etc. are also open-source).

BWAPI for OpenBW provides the same interface as BWAPI for the original BW and aims to be fully compatible with existing bots.
It can be found here: https://github.com/OpenBW