Ah, ok. I run Ubuntu, and I just managed to compile war1tool very easily.
It works, it extracts all the graphics from the warcraft .war file.
I will try and make an Engine, I don't think I will get too far though
Cybergoth: Have you managed to get anywhere with the Engine yet?
I am interested in making a Warcraft Engine but my coding skills are very low.
There was a person who tried before and got quite far, but for some reason he stopped. his Engine was called Winwar. it's hosted on sourceforge