diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1b15a29f..a7e65b00 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Build files
 /bin
 /build
+/scons_build_*
 
 # Generated documentation
 /doxygen_html
diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ab37532b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+""" SConstruct file fore building Kvazaar with Scons.
+
+This file defines two targets, x86 and x64, and builds construction
+environments for both.
+
+TODO:
+- add debug builds
+- whole program optimization for gcc
+
+"""
+
+import os
+import platform
+
+Help("""
+Type: 'scons x86' to build a 32-bit release version,
+     'scons x64' to build a 64-bit release version.
+     'scons x86 x64 -c' to clear all build directories.
+""")
+
+
+# Create construction environments for 32 and 64 bit builds.
+# Visual studio needs the architecture to be set in this stage. It can not be
+# modified later.
+env_x86 = Environment(
+        ASCOM='yasm $ASFLAGS -o $TARGET $SOURCES',
+        ENV={'PATH': os.environ['PATH']},  # to find yasm on Windows
+        TARGET_ARCH='x86',  # for Visual Studio
+        )
+env_x64 = Environment(
+        ASCOM='yasm $ASFLAGS -o $TARGET $SOURCES',
+        ENV={'PATH': os.environ['PATH']}, # to find yasm on Windows
+        TARGET_ARCH='amd64',  # for Visual Studio
+        )
+
+# YASM flags for different architectures. The object file format and name
+# mangling must be the same as used by the C compiler for that OS.
+# Indexed by platform.system().
+yasm_flags = {
+    'Windows': {
+        'x86': '-f win32 -DPREFIX ',
+        'x64': '-f win64'},
+    'Darwin': {
+        'x86': '-f macho32 -DPREFIX',
+        'x64': '-f macho64 -DPREFIX'},
+    'Linux': {  # Flags for Unix-like.
+        'x86': '-f elf32',
+        'x64': '-f elf64'},
+    'all': {  # Falgs for all systems.
+        'x86': ' -DARCH_X86_64=0 -m x86',
+        'x64': ' -DARCH_X86_64=1 -m amd64'},
+}
+# Set yasm flags for OS and architecture.
+target_yasm_flags = yasm_flags.get(platform.system(), yasm_flags['Linux'])
+env_x86.Replace(ASFLAGS=target_yasm_flags['x86'])
+env_x64.Replace(ASFLAGS=target_yasm_flags['x64'])
+env_x86.Append(ASFLAGS=yasm_flags['all']['x86'])
+env_x64.Append(ASFLAGS=yasm_flags['all']['x64'])
+
+
+# Try and deal with all the remaining compiler specific differences that I
+# really with scons would handle.
+if 'MSVS' in env_x86:
+    # /MD = multithreaded DLL runtime
+    # /Ox = full optimization, sets /Ob2, /Og, /Oi, /Ot, /Oy
+    # /GL = enable whole program optimization
+    # /LTCG = link time code generation
+    # /arch:SSE2 = use SSE2 (x86 only)
+    env_x86.Append(
+            CCFLAGS='/MD /Ox /GL /arch:SSE2',
+            LINKFLAGS='/LTCG')
+    env_x64.Append(
+            CCFLAGS='/MD /Ox /GL',
+            LINKFLAGS='/LTCG')
+    # Linker needs TMP
+    env_x86['ENV']['TMP'] = os.environ['TMP']
+    env_x64['ENV']['TMP'] = os.environ['TMP']
+    # VS version uses winsock2
+    # We probably should be linking against the dll or just not using winsock.
+    env_x86.MergeFlags('-lws2_32')
+    env_x64.MergeFlags('-lws2_32') # ws2_64 isn't found, but 32 works.
+else:
+    # GCC flags
+    # -m for arch, -O2 for optimization, -lm for math lib
+    env_x86.MergeFlags('-m32 -O2 -lm')
+    env_x64.MergeFlags('-m64 -O2 -lm')
+
+
+# Declare build targets.
+x86 = SConscript('src/SConscript',
+        exports={'env': env_x86},
+        variant_dir='scons_build_x86',
+        duplicate=False)
+Alias('x86', x86)
+
+x64 = SConscript('src/SConscript',
+        exports={'env': env_x64},
+        variant_dir='scons_build_x64',
+        duplicate=False)
+Alias('x64', x64)
+
+
+if platform.machine().endswith('64'):
+    Default(x64)
+else:
+    Default(x86)
+
diff --git a/src/SConscript b/src/SConscript
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4681f750
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/SConscript
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+""" Build Kvazaa
+"""
+
+import os
+
+Import('env')
+
+sources = []
+sources += env.Glob('*.c')
+sources += env.Glob('extras/*.c')
+sources += env.Glob('x86/*.asm')
+env.Depends('x86/cpu.asm', 'x86/x86inc.asm')
+
+prog = env.Program('kvazaar', sources)
+
+env.Clean(prog, '.')  # Remove variant_dir with 'scons -c'.
+
+Return('prog')