Wurstscript is a delicious programming language which compiles to Jass or Lua code that is used to power WarCraft III maps.

User Documentation

Using WurstScript to build a map is easy! Check out the Setup Guide on how to get started. For a formal description of all language features, visit the Manual.

Consider joining the WurstScript community on Discord.

Reporting Bugs

Please report any bugs your encounter with our Issue Tracker. Include as much information as possible, ideally with logs. Logfiles are located in your home folder under ~/.wurst/logs. Find the last modified file and pastebin it's contents.

Contributing

See https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wurstscript/WurstScript/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

System Overview

This repository contains the following sub-projects:

• de.peeeq.wurstscript
  • The core wurstscript compiler and directly related tools
• Wurstpack
  • (deprecated) Wurst integration for the Warcraft III World Editor
    • HelperScripts
      • Some external scripts used for generating data e.g. for StdLib

IDE support is provided via a VSCode plugin: https://github.com/wurstscript/wurst4vscode

The source for the wurstscript website can be found here: https://github.com/wurstscript/wurstscript.github.io

Compiler Build Process

Java 11+ is required to build the project. Clone the repository and open the de.peeeq.wurstscript folder which contains the compiler project.

Using Gradle

Use the gradle wrapper to run required tasks, it will download gradle automatically. Replace [task_name] with the desired task.

.\gradlew [task_name]

Examples

To update the local compiler installation used by vscode run

.\gradlew make_for_userdir

For deploying .jars and .zips see tasks in deploy.gradle

.\gradlew create_zip_wurstpack_compiler

Import into IDE

You can import the compiler project into any IDE that provides a gradle plugin. For IntelliJ IDEA, you can simply execute ./gradlew openIdea. To run the Test Suite, execute AllTests.xml with TestNG.

Publishing a new release

Jenkins auto-releases versions as major.minor.patch.hotfix-jenkins-Wurst-buildNumber - e.g. 1.8.1.0-jenkins-Wurst-1248.

The version string can be updated in build.gradle.