The Linux version doesn't work at least in manjaro. The issue is that it wants a "default" font even if it doesn't actually use it.
You can get it to run normally by creating a dummy font config in a dummy font directory and passing that as a parameter before starting nw.
I found a nice one-liner that does this if run in the AND directory:
mkdir fonts; echo '<fontconfig><dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir><cachedir>fonts</cachedir></fontconfig>' >fonts/fonts.conf; FONTCONFIG_PATH=fonts ./nw
After the first run you only need the last part.
You can get it to run normally by creating a dummy font config in a dummy font directory and passing that as a parameter before starting nw.
I found a nice one-liner that does this if run in the AND directory:
mkdir fonts; echo '<fontconfig><dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir><cachedir>fonts</cachedir></fontconfig>' >fonts/fonts.conf; FONTCONFIG_PATH=fonts ./nw
After the first run you only need the last part.