* TO BUILD ONSCRIPTER-EN FOR YOUR USE

This is the usual

  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install


This will use gcc by default; to use icc, start with
  CC=icc ./configure


* DEALING WITH UNHELPFUL LIBRARIES

Some system-provided libraries are not ideally configured for use with
ONScripter-En.  For example, some system-provided SDL libraries cause
stuttering audio.  You can usually fix this by using the internal
library pack and configuring with something like

  ./configure --with-internal-sdl

(use --help to get a list of the options you can use to selectively
replace libraries with internal versions).


* TO BUILD A RELATIVELY REDISTRIBUTABLE ONSCRIPTER-EN BINARY

Configure with

  ./configure --with-internal-libs

to statically link as many libraries as possible into the executable,
which makes life better on systems with very primitive application
installation methods, such as OS X and Windows.

If you are compiling ONScripter-En for a system with modern package
management - for example, if you are creating a binary package for a
specific Linux distribution - then it may make more sense to omit the
--with-internal-libs, compile a dynamically linked executable, and
have your package depend on the regular platform-specific packages for
SDL, Freetype, and all the other dependencies.  However, you may still
need to include some libraries internally to make everything work.


* NOTES

For Windows builds, use a MinGW toolchain in the MSYS environment.
There is no Visual Studio option; it just isn't worth the pain.

For Mac OS X there is an XCode project file in the "macosx" directory.
It builds a Universal binary as an application bundle.
Either build from within XCode, or use "xcodebuild" from a shell prompt. 
It is known to build with XCode 2.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.
The game data can either be stored in the Contents/Resources within the
bundle, or run ONScripter.app from within the game directory itself.