Will try again when I have access to a (real) Linux machine
You shouldn’t need to do that! The game is running on my server; see the game description for instructions for how to connect. The binary download is just there in case my server crashes or something, or if you want to play offline.
I didn’t test the binary very much because of that; I figured most people wouldn’t need it.
If you do want to run your own server, I bet you’d have better luck with the source tarball since building from source has very few dependencies, just make/gcc/curl. (the makefile will automatically download and build the VM for the runtime)