• Install Cygwin
• Download ScummC
• Compile the ScummC tools
• Compile a ScummC example game
• Play a free SCUMM game in ScummVM
• Report errors

Getting started with ScummC on Windows

If you are a Windows user, you will have to install MinGW or Cygwin to use ScummC. This page explains how to get started with Cygwin.

Install Cygwin

• Download the Cygwin installer and execute it.

• On the "Select Packages" page of the install wizard, select the following additional packages from the "Devel" category: bison, gcc-g++ and make. Any additional required packages will be installed automatically.

• For the visual editors, you would also need the GTK+ packages, but currently the ScummC configure script doesn't seem to recognize them on Windows. You can use the binary Win32 builds instead.

Download ScummC

• Download the latest ScummC release (currently 0.2.0) and save it in your Cygwin home directory.

• Start the Cygwin Bash Shell.

• Unzip the archive by typing

tar -xzvf scummc-0.2.0.tar.gz

Compile the ScummC tools

• Go into the ScummC directory by typing

cd scummc-0.2.0

• Run

./configure

• Run

make

Compile a ScummC example game

• Go into the game directory, e.g.

cd examples/openquest

• If you try to run "make" now, you will most likely get an error of the type

*** No rule to make target `xyz', needed by `abc'.  Stop.

This is caused by the .exe extensions of the binaries which are missing in the makefile references.

• For a quickfix, you can change the references in the makefile. Open the game makefile with an editor, e.g. WordPad.

• Change the following lines

SCC=$(BIN_PATH)/scc
SLD=$(BIN_PATH)/sld
COST=$(BIN_PATH)/cost
CHAR=$(BIN_PATH)/char

by adding the .exe extension:

SCC=$(BIN_PATH)/scc.exe
SLD=$(BIN_PATH)/sld.exe
COST=$(BIN_PATH)/cost.exe
CHAR=$(BIN_PATH)/char.exe

• You can now run "make" and compile the game. However, in order to play it, ScummVM will have to be patched and recompiled.

• An easier solution is to change the binary key to have ScummVM recognize the game as DOTT. Open the makefile again and change the following line

scummc6.000: $(OBJS)
    $(SLD) -v $^ 

by adding the additional parameters:

scummc6.000: $(OBJS)
    $(SLD) -v $^ -o tentacle -key 0x69

• Delete the previous binaries by running

make clean

• Run "make" again. You should see that the game binaries are now all named tentacle.xxx.

Play a free SCUMM game in ScummVM

• If you don't have ScummVM already, download and install it.

• Start ScummVM, select "Add Game", and point it to the game binaries.

• Run the game and enjoy.

Report errors

• If, anywhere during this setup, you encountered any errors, please subscribe to the ScummC-General mailing list and report them.