SCARE source code restricts itself to ANSI/ISO C, so SCARE should build on any platform that offers an ANSI/ISO C compiler. By default, SCARE builds its simplest incarnation, an interpreter that reads from and writes to standard input. If your platform has 'make', you should be able to build this with make scare If your platform doesn't have 'make', you should be able to build this by moving the file os_glk.c to a different directory, unzipping the required Zlib source files, then running cc -o scare *.c For a list of the required Zlib sources that you'll need to extract from the Zlib zip archive, where you don't have 'make', consult the definitions of ZSOURCES and ZHEADERS in the SCARE Makefile. The two files os_ansi.c and os_glk.c are alternative user interfaces for the core interpreter. All other source files are either core interpreter C files themselves (everything called sc*.h and sc*.c), or source code from Zlib (everything else). The plain 'scare' links with os_ansi, 'glkscare' links with os_glk. So, to build the Glk version of SCARE, you can use make glkscare To build 'glkscare' you'll need to have a built Glk library installed. If you don't, build one and store somewhere convenient, then edit the Makefile so that GLKDIR references it. The default Makefile expects a directory called ../xglk, containing a built Xglk library and associated header files. You may also want to vary the setting for GLKARCH in the Makefile if building for Glk on non-Linux platforms. A note about the include in the Makefile -- it uses the 'sinclude' syntax to try to include Glk's make inclusion. 'sinclude' is, apparently, a bit more portable than GNU make's '-include', and GNU make certainly understands it. However, if your make doesn't understand 'sinclude', just comment out this line in the Makefile when building non-Glk SCARE. Another minor note -- SCARE's Makefile uses a fairly high level of C compiler paranoia, and one of the GCC warning options it uses is -Wshadow. Some SCARE code also uses a local variable 'index', which has the potential to clash with the BSD index() function. This generally causes no problems with GCC 2.95, as SCARE is careful to compile with -ansi, which excludes the index() function prototype. With GCC 3, however, it's been reported that the index() prototype is brought in even with -ansi, and this can cause warnings about 'index'. If you find this happening to you, it's simplest to just turn off -Wshadow. If you're feeling adventurous, you can also build an IFP plugin for SCARE: make scare-1.3.2.so As well as needing Glk, this requires that you have installed IFP on your Linux system. The plugin will run all of the same games. The amount of malloc'ing done by the interpreter when running large Adrift games stresses IFP's garbage collection, so you may notice slight slowness playing such games through IFP. The PK Girl is a large Adrift game; however, it is somewhat atypical -- ones of more normal dimensions (A Party To Murder, and Unraveling God, both from Comp02) work through IFP without noticeable delay.