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Building FreeSCI

To build the package, type the following:

0. ./configure

1. make

This will try to build several tools:
src/tools/sciconsole - A command console for inspection of SCI data src/tools/scidisasm - Disassembles all script resources into .script files src/tools/sciunpack - A tool for unpacking and converting SCI resource data

                      (now also contains the functionality of the old
                       'classes', 'listwords', 'scriptdump' and 'vocabdump'
                       tools)

src/freesci - The main executable; this loads, links and runs SCI bytecode.

For graphics, you will need at least one of the following: * An Xlib implementation for the X11 Windowing System, as shipped with most UNIX systems and VMS
* libggi (http://www.ggi-project.org)
* libsdl (http://www.libsdl.org)

To install it on your system (globally), run 'make install'. You will need to have superuser privileges to do this, unless you specified a different installation prefix while running 'configure'.

Bulding from CVS

If you are using a CVS snapshot instead of an official release, you will require the following utilities:

• A C compiler (such as gcc)
• lex or flex
• GNU automake and autoconf
• perl 5.x
• make

  Instructions

0. Get the source tarball and unpack it.

1. Go into the freesci directory and run the reconf script. (./reconf)
2. Run the configure script. (./configure)
3. Run make. Be sure that /usr/ccs/bin is in your path AFTER /usr/local/bin and everything else.

Location of the .freesci directory

On UNIX systems, a directory called .freesci is created in the home directory (see README for more details). The home directory is whatever is contained in your HOME environment variable.

Alpha notes

FreeSCI on Alpha has one special feature on systems with the MVI instruction set extension (provided by PCA56, EV6, EV67, and probably all later Alpha implementations): Using the xlib target in 32bpp mode (read up on the DefaultFbBpp option in your XF86Config file to find out how to enable this), you will now get real-time alpha blending.

Solaris notes

Last updated 04-20-2001 by Matt Hargett <matt@use.net>

Platforms tested:

• Solaris 2.7 w/recommended patches.

Before you run FreeSCI, you MUST add the following line to the config file (~/.freesci/config): "gfx.xlib.disable_shmem = true".