Difference between revisions of "Developer Central"

Revision as of 12:52, 1 July 2007

The purpose of this page is to give a link to all kinds of resources that contain information valuable to current and future developers of ScummVM.

The first thing you need to be able to do is compile ScummVM.
Some hints on debugging ScummVM.
Before you write/submit code, you must read about our Code Formatting Conventions. Patches which do not follow them will be rejected or at least delayed until they are cleaned up to comply to them.
Also, please read and respect the Portability Guide.
If you have write access to our repository, you are expect to have read and to comply to the Commit Guidelines.
If you want to provide a new Engine for ScummVM, check out our Engines HOWTO.
If you want to port ScummVM to a new platform, check out our Backends HOWTO.
Our Doxygen source code documentation may help you to get the big picture about ScummVM.

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 == Getting started ==
 * The first thing you need to be able to do is [[Compiling ScummVM|compile ScummVM]].
+* Some hints on [[Debugging ScummVM|debugging ScummVM]].
 * Before you write/submit code, '''you must read about our''' [[Code Formatting Conventions]]. Patches which do not follow them will be rejected or at least delayed until they are cleaned up to comply to them.
 * Also, please read and respect the [[Portability Guide]].