diff --git a/scripts/chrpath_linux.c b/scripts/chrpath_linux.c
index 685913cf..28e3a5e2 100644
--- a/scripts/chrpath_linux.c
+++ b/scripts/chrpath_linux.c
@@ -107,9 +107,6 @@
 /* Define to the version of this package. */
 #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""0.13""
 
-/* The size of a `void *', as computed by sizeof. */
-#define SIZEOF_VOID_P 4
-
 /* Define to 1 if you have the ANSI C header files. */
 #define STDC_HEADERS 1
 
diff --git a/scripts/release-linux.sh b/scripts/installer-linux.sh
similarity index 54%
rename from scripts/release-linux.sh
rename to scripts/installer-linux.sh
index e1eb0010..8b3fc6dd 100755
--- a/scripts/release-linux.sh
+++ b/scripts/installer-linux.sh
@@ -1,41 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# WARNING: This script might only work with the authors setup...
-
-VERSION=`date "+%Y.%m.%d"`
-#VERSION=2011.12
-
-set -ex
-
-# svnclean
-
-qmake-qt4 VERSION=$VERSION QMAKE_CXXFLAGS_RELEASE="-O3 -march=pentium"
-make
-
-rm -rf release
-mkdir -p release/{bin,lib/openscad,examples,libraries}
-
-cat > release/bin/openscad << "EOT"
-#!/bin/bash
-
-cd "$( dirname "$( type -p $0 )" )"
-libdir=$PWD/../lib/openscad/
-cd "$OLDPWD"
-
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$libdir${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
-exec $libdir/openscad "$@"
-EOT
-
-cp openscad release/lib/openscad/
-gcc -o chrpath_linux scripts/chrpath_linux.c
-./chrpath_linux -d release/lib/openscad/openscad
-
-ldd openscad | sed -re 's,.* => ,,; s,[\t ].*,,;' -e '/Qt|boost/ { p; d; };' \
-    -e '/lib(audio|CGAL|GLEW|opencsg|png|gmp|gmpxx|mpfr)\.so/ { p; d; };' \
-    -e 'd;' | xargs cp -vt release/lib/openscad/
-strip release/lib/openscad/*
-
-cat > release/install.sh << "EOT"
-#!/bin/bash
 
 # change to the install source directory
 cd "$( dirname "$( type -p $0 )" )"
@@ -80,13 +43,3 @@ echo "Copying libraries..."
 cp -rv libraries/. "$prefix"/share/openscad/libraries/
 
 echo "Installation finished. Have a nice day."
-EOT
-
-chmod 755 -R release/
-
-cp examples/* release/examples/
-chmod 644 -R release/examples/*
-
-cp -R libraries/* release/libraries/
-chmod -R u=rwx,go=r,+X release/libraries/*
-rm -rf `find release/libraries -name ".git"`
diff --git a/scripts/openscad-linux b/scripts/openscad-linux
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..1246199c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/openscad-linux
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cd "$( dirname "$( type -p $0 )" )"
+libdir=$PWD/../lib/openscad/
+cd "$OLDPWD"
+
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$libdir${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+exec $libdir/openscad "$@"
diff --git a/scripts/release-common.sh b/scripts/release-common.sh
index 72ae29c4..80c9795f 100755
--- a/scripts/release-common.sh
+++ b/scripts/release-common.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 #
 # This script creates a binary release of OpenSCAD.
 # This should work under Mac OS X, Windows (msys), and Linux cross-compiling
@@ -24,10 +24,20 @@ printUsage()
   echo "  Example: $0 -v 2010.01
 }
 
-if [[ $OSTYPE =~ "darwin" ]]; then
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" =~ "darwin" ]]; then
   OS=MACOSX
 elif [[ $OSTYPE == "msys" ]]; then
   OS=WIN
+elif [[ $OSTYPE == "linux-gnu" ]]; then
+  OS=LINUX
+  if [[ `uname -m` == "x86_64" ]]; then
+    ARCH=64
+  else
+    ARCH=32
+  fi
+  echo "Detected ARCH: $ARCH"
+elif [[ $OSTYPE == "mingw-cross-env" ]]; then
+  OS=LINXWIN
 fi
 
 echo "Detected OS: $OS"
@@ -47,7 +57,7 @@ fi
 echo "Building openscad-$VERSION $CONFIGURATION..."
 
 case $OS in
-    MACOSX) 
+    LINUX|MACOSX) 
         CONFIG=deploy
         TARGET=
         ;;
@@ -83,7 +93,7 @@ case $OS in
         rm -rf OpenSCAD.app
         ;;
     WIN)
-            #if the following files are missing their tried removal stops the build process on msys
+        #if the following files are missing their tried removal stops the build process on msys
         touch -t 200012121010 parser_yacc.h parser_yacc.cpp lexer_lex.cpp
         ;;
 esac
@@ -158,4 +168,24 @@ case $OS in
         echo "Binary created: OpenSCAD-$VERSION.zip"
         echo "Installer created: OpenSCAD-$VERSION-Installer.exe"
         ;;
+    LINUX)
+        # Do stuff from release-linux.sh
+        mkdir openscad-$VERSION/bin
+        mkdir -p openscad-$VERSION/lib/openscad
+        cp scripts/openscad-linux openscad-$VERSION/bin/openscad
+        cp openscad openscad-$VERSION/lib/openscad/
+        if [[ $ARCH == 64 ]]; then
+              gcc -o chrpath_linux -DSIZEOF_VOID_P=8 scripts/chrpath_linux.c
+        else
+              gcc -o chrpath_linux -DSIZEOF_VOID_P=4 scripts/chrpath_linux.c
+        fi
+        ./chrpath_linux -d openscad-$VERSION/lib/openscad/openscad
+        ldd openscad | sed -re 's,.* => ,,; s,[\t ].*,,;' -e '/Qt|boost/ { p; d; };' \
+            -e '/lib(icu.*|stdc.*|audio|CGAL|GLEW|opencsg|png|gmp|gmpxx|mpfr)\.so/ { p; d; };' \
+            -e 'd;' | xargs cp -vt openscad-$VERSION/lib/openscad/
+        strip openscad-$VERSION/lib/openscad/*
+        cp scripts/installer-linux.sh openscad-$VERSION/install.sh
+        chmod 755 -R openscad-$VERSION/
+        tar cz openscad-$VERSION > openscad-$VERSION.x86-64.tar.gz
+        ;;
 esac