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.

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

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.

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).

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

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.