scut

Overview

Scut is now part of Yori. Information on this page may be stale.

Scut is a tool for creating, modifying, and executing Windows shortcuts from the command line.

License

This software is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Downloads

Latest stable precompiled binary (with MiniCRT)
scut.exe (version 1.20, 13.5 Kb, last updated 16 Jul 2017)
Latest stable source code
scut-source.zip (version 1.20, 10.9 Kb, last updated 16 Jul 2017)
Latest development precompiled binary (with MiniCRT)
scut.exe (version 1.20.2016102301, 13.5 Kb, last updated 24 Oct 2016)
Latest development source code
scut-source.zip (version 1.20.2016102301, 10.3 Kb, last updated 24 Oct 2016)
Older versions
See the archive page.

System Requirements

To run scut binaries, you need Windows NT 4 or newer. Note that Windows 95/98/Me are not supported by these binaries.

To compile from source, you need Visual C++, version 4 or newer. Free versions of Visual C++ are included in the Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools, Windows SDK 7.1 (2010), or Windows SDK 7.0 (2008).

Build instructions

  1. Open a command prompt to your version of Visual C++ and set up your environment.
  2. Unpack and enter the scut source tree.
  3. Most of the time, just run "nmake".

Compilation options

Compilation options can be used by passing arguments to NMAKE.

DEBUG=Enable debug code. Valid values are 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled.) Default is 0.
MINICRT=Compile against Minicrt rather than Msvcrt. Valid values are 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled.) If 1, minicrt.h and minicrt.lib must be in %INCLUDE% and %LIB% respectively. An alternative way to use Minicrt is to extract it into a crt subdirectory within the scut directory, and it will be used automatically. Default is 0.
MSVCRT_DLL=Compile against the shared, DLL C runtime library, or the static version. Valid values are 0 (static C runtime), or 1 (shared C runtime.) Default is 1.
UNICODE=Compile a Unicode or ANSI version of the binary. Unicode is more useful on NT, but ANSI is required to run on Windows 95. Valid values are 1 (Unicode) or 0 (ANSI.) Default is 1.