What you need to use Glulx Inform

To compile a Glulx Inform game, you'll need the following:

• The source code to be compiled. You make that yourself, in a text editor (not a word processor.)

• The bi-platform Inform library.

• Infglk, a supplement to the bi-platform library, which provides a number of routines that allow Glulx Inform authors to take advantage of Glk's multimedia capabilities without having to know anything about the @glk opcode or the table that associates numbers with functions. Just download the latest version of the Infglk package from the Glulx section of the IF archive, extract the files within to the directory where you're doing your Glulx Inform work, and include the following line in your source code (right after the bit where you include the parser and the verb library):

  
     Include "Infglk";
  
  

  Every section that follows will assume you're using Infglk, so consider it mandatory.

• A Glulx Inform compiler for your platform.

And to run the program you've compiled, you'll need:

• A Glulx interpreter for your platform, whose name should be some variant of "Glulxe". (The extra E stands for "execute".)
• A Glk library for your platform, to provide the interpreter with the resources it needs to run.

Now, if you want to include sound or graphics files in your game, you need to add another wrinkle to this setup: Blorb. What's that? Read on...