Insight updated
The Insight builds available for windows have now been rebuilt with a static libexpat to allow use of target descriptions.
There is now a linux x86_64 binary available thanks to DesktopMan for the loan of a machine to build this. Please report on the success of this binary in the forums.
Several users have been adding support requests and other toolchain related questions to the comments. Please direct these to the forums where more help will be forthcoming.
The Insight builds available for windows have now been rebuilt with a static libexpat to allow use of target descriptions.
There were a few warnings thrown up by the update to gcc 4.3.0 and the arm9 template makefile has been causing issues so a new libnds examples tarball has been made available.
The next libnds release is still a work in progress, more news as it’s available.
The latest release of the ARM toolchain is now available. There are a number of improvements
devkitPro Updater 1.4.6 now downloads and installs the default.arm7 file used for arm9 only projects separately from libnds. This will allow us to maintain a much improved default arm7 core which will later include built in wifi support.
As usual, windows users should run the updater which will update itself, make sure you add the new default arm7 when shown the update list.
For other platforms where automatic update is not available here are the links to the SF releases.
The donations page has been fixed, thanks to those who told me the donation buttons were broken. Your support is much appreciated.
A porting guide for 4.3.0 is available on the main gnu.org site, there are a number of new features and better conformance to C++ standards.
Sgstair has recently announced a new competition for budding hackers to show off their optimisation skills. The object of the exercise is to write code to produce a speedy Mandlebrot set generator on the DS so, if you think you’re up for the challenge, head over to the akkit competition page.
Bushing has kindly put together an installer package for OSX users. We would be immensely grateful for any feedback you can provide.
See the forum thread for the download link.
After some harassment by one of the plan 9 developers we decided to put devkitPro forward as a mentoring organisation for this year’s Google Summer of Code. There is a project ideas page on the wiki along with some brief details of how to get in touch if you’re interested in any of the projects of have ideas of your own.
The Plan 9 community is also recruiting student ds developers for GSoC 2008. Interested students can make contact on the plan9 irc channel on freenode or through the plan9 google group. The group also has a project page found at code.google.com/p/inferno-ds/
This should be a great opportunity to combine your studies with homebrew.
I’ve recently been working on a patchset for Insight which allows for building in a mingw/msys environment that has been accepted and applied in Insight mainline. Since users have been having trouble with the old package on XP and Vista we’ve released a build from CVS HEAD which is now available through the devkitPro installer/updater.
Now we have some basic getting started instructions on the wiki I thought it was about time we made more effort to keep the public buildscripts up to date. These are now available in the Sourceforge download pages.
These scripts will build devkitARM r21, devkitPPC r14 and the current iteration of devkitPSP r12 which will probably be released in a few weeks.
The 14th release of the gamecube toolchain is now final and available for download. This version brings Wii support now that we have the ability to run code on Wii thanks to the efforts of Team Twiizers and their Twilight Hack.
Those of you used to the old build system with prior versions of devkitPPC and gamecube programming will need to review the updated examples and templates. libogc has now been removed from inside the toolchain and is installed in a separate directory in the same way we maintain the gba and ds support libraries for devkitARM. This allows us more leeway to update the toolchain and libraries separately and avoid dependency issues which have been causing problems for users in the past.
Several packages have been updated and some new ones added, notably the addition of Monk’s gcube emulator which appears to provide most compatibility with devkitPPC compiled code, including the ability to run code intended for Wii. We don’t advise using the emulator exclusively for development testing but it should be convenient for quick test builds prior to running on hardware. A windows native binary has been provided but currently lacks the debug features of the OSX and linux versions, hopefully we will be able to provide this with a future update. Currently there are no builds for other platforms but we will be happy to host prebuilt versions should someone volunteer to provide them.
Windows users should use the devkitPro installer updater to obtain devkitPPC and the support libraries, this ensures that everything is installed properly. For other platforms instructions are provided on the wiki Getting Started page which includes links for the windows install package.
In other news, the website is undergoing a bit of a revamp and the forums are now officially live. These are intended for support requests and discussions related to the toolchains and libraries provided by devkitPro. More general homebrew related discussions should be directed to the excellent community to be found at gbadev.org for gba/ds or ps2dev.org for PSP. There are some other forums dedicated to homebrew on other platforms but, until such times as properly maintained sites without a piracy bias turn up, they will not be linked here.
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