Comments on: Setting up an NDS Homebrew tool chain in Linux and Mac OSX! (Ok… Windows too…)

By: gemste

gemste — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:25:14 +0000

for those MAC users, you will need to a couple more things:

1) install xcode from apple developers, it’s free just signup. http://developer.apple.com/Tools/xcode/
2) install default.arm7 from the devkitpro files from sourceforge and put it in your libnds folder: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114505

By: Theoxylo

Theoxylo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:25:11 +0000

Now you can use the devkitpro buildscripts (URL below) to build the complete toolchain automatically from sources:

1. download the release “buildscripts 20080308″ (buildscripts-20080308.tar.bz2) from the sourceforge download page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114505

2. decompress:
tar -xjvf buildscripts-20080308.tar.bz2

3. cd buildscripts; ./build-devkit.sh

See the README.TXT for details

By: coderjoe

coderjoe — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:12:26 +0000

@Damien:

What do you mean by simple files?
Are you looking for a GNU Make tutorial?

If so check this site out:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/make/make_toc.html

If you’re just trying to compile one file at a time, don’t even bother with make. Just use gcc or cc as defined in the man page.

Cheers.

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:44:18 +0000

How do you compile files? I tried typing Make, but it doesn’t work. It says “nothing to be done”. What do I type?

By: coderjoe

coderjoe — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:10:22 +0000

@anonymous:

You’re absolutely correct.

If you’re using the latest version of the source (it has changed a lot since this post was authored) then you do indeed need to place the libraries into the libnds directory.

Thanks for the tip.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:27:00 +0000

Thanks for putting this post up! I think it might possibly be the only description of the required directory structure and environment variables for a Linux install of Devkitpro anywhere on the internet!

For anybody else finding this, note that you also need to extract libfat-nds into the libnds subdirectory (/usr/local/devkitPRO/libnds if you are using the paths in this guide) if you want libfat (and one of the NDS examples requires it be present to compile). I’m guessing that dswifi also goes into the libnds directory, but I’m not sure. According to this message on a mailing list that’s the case (”All the DS libraries should be installed in the libnds folder”): http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Problem-compiling-examples-in-Linux-p13417132.html

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By: coderjoe

coderjoe — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:52:12 +0000

@cheese_block:

Yeah, No$Cash isn’t the cheapest option on the block, but for debugging I’ve heard you can’t beat it. As for free solutions you’ll just have to work with emulators and Insight.

If you find any better solutions please clue me in.

Thanks, and happy hacking.

By: cheese_block

cheese_block — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:05:21 +0000

Thanks for the posting.

What would you recommend about debugging? I’ve looked into Insight, which I can’t get to work satisfactorily, No$Cash is very expensive and I’m not sure if there’s any emulators with debug output windows.

Cheers

By: techforumz

techforumz — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:27:38 +0000

Ok, got it now, thanks.