I recently converted S.C.O.U.R.G.E. to use autotools instead of cmake. In general the usual autotools sequence applies (configure, make, etc.) with some caveats:
-the executable builds in src/. You can run it from here w/o a make install
-If you really need to "make install", currently you have to manually copy the contents of the data dir to /usr/local/share/scourge.
-On the mac OS X, command line building is currently broken because I can't seem to be able to compile FreeType2. If someone fixes this, I'd appreciate a note. ;-)
-On the Mac OS, you can build via XTools
-On windows, you can build in DevCpp++

If you feel ready to test the very latest code of the game (which is not guaranteed to even compile) you can download it from SVN:

svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scourge scourge

For more info on scourge in subversion, look here: http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=98006

1. Get FINK and install the SDL and freetype libraries.
2. aclocal
3. autoheader
4. autoconf
5. automake -a
6. ./configure
7. make
8. ./src/scourge

OR

You can use XCode to build (project file included in the dmg file) but you'll have to adjust my paths in the project file. (I'm not an XCode power user...) You'll need the SDL and SDL_mixer libs from the usual places. For freetype search the web or get it from the scourge application bundle.

Update: I've been unable to compile scourge with the gnu tools since the inclusion of freetype. If someone has success with this please let me know. (And maybe share your patched config scripts...) However, you can still use the command line if you build in the xcode dir with "xcodebuild build".

If you got the source from cvs, you need to "autoreconf":
autoreconf -i
(and optionally: automake -a)

1. Make sure you have SDL, OpenGL and freetype libraries installed.
2. ./configure
3. make
4. ./src/scourge
I run Mandrake linux 9.2, so older versions of gcc may give you problems.

Linux notes:
-To check that you're running in hardware accelerated mode, type "glxinfo". Look for a line like "Direct rendering". If the value is "yes", you're ok.

I highly recommend Dev-C++ (a free c++ ide; uses Mingw port of gcc). I include the Dev-C++ project file in the windows release. You need to install SDL via the IDE's package manager and get FreeType from here.

Alternativaly, you can also install the command line environment by hand:

1. Install MinGW and MSYS (In that order!)
2. Install freetype for MinGW
3. Install SDL for windows
4. In MSYS, do:
5. aclocal
6. autoheader
7. autoconf
8. automake -a
9. ./configure --enable-debug
10. make
11. ./src/scourge.exe