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Installation
============
- Copy the relevant game datafiles to your sd card (location doesn't matter).
- Install ScummVM like any other homebrew.
- After installation you should have a file `/switch/scummvm/scummvm.nro`
- Run ScummVM and use the launcher to add games and run them.
- Press the plus key to return to the launcher and play another game.
- The latest daily version of ScummVM for Switch is [here](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/snapshots/master/switch-master-latest.zip) (needs to be unzipped).
- Copy the scummvm folder to your SD card into the folder /switch/ so that you have a folder `/switch/scummvm` with `scummvm.nro` and other folders inside.
- Launch ScummVM using your favorite method to launch homebrew on the Switch

Notes
=====
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Building the source code
========================
To build ScummVM for Switch:

- Obtain the ScummVM source code from https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm

- Install devkitPro for Switch (https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Setting_up_Development_Environment)
This port of ScummVM to the Switch is based on SDL2. It uses the open source SDK provided by devkitPro.

- Ensure your $DEVKITPRO variable is set via `export DEVKITPRO="/opt/devkitpro"`
To build ScummVM for Switch:

- Ensure your $DEVKITA64 variable is set via `export DEVKITA64="/opt/devkitpro/devkitA64"`
- Obtain the ScummVM source code (https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm)

- Ensure devkitPro binaries are in your path via `export PATH="$DEVKITA64/bin:$DEVKITPRO/tools/bin:$PATH"`
- Install the development tools for Switch following the official instructions (https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started)

- Install libraries via `sudo -E dkp-pacman -S switch-portlibs` (or just `pacman -S switch-portlibs`)
- Install libraries via
```
sudo dkp-pacman -S switch-portlibs
```

- Create a subdirectory somewhere outside the source folder for your ScummVM build and cd into it
- Create a subdirectory somewhere outside the source folder for your ScummVM build and cd into it

- Execute the command `configure --host=switch`
- Execute the command (once a curl-config script exists for devkitA64, the --disable-libcurl could be omitted)
```
../scummvm/configure --host=switch --disable-libcurl
```

- Execute the command `make scummvm_switch.zip`
- Execute the command
```
make scummvm_switch.zip
```

Port Authors
============
cpasjuste

Thanks
======
[devkitPro](https://devkitpro.org devkitPro) and [Switchbrew](https://switchbrew.org/) teams

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