I’ve decided to move the whole devkitPro site over to WordPress for ease of maintainance. Some links may be missing or currently being updated but I decided to take the Wordpress side live rather than fiddling around getting everything in place offline so I’m more motivated to get it all done.

You’ll probably notice a few posts which weren’t listed on the old site which is entirely due to me fiddling around with the offline site too much and not getting around to uploading everything.

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If you experience random crashes with make as well as with the msysinfo command (i.e., repeating the command often allows to compile the source code succesfully), the issue might be caused by the Logitech QuickCam software. Here is a solution to this issue:

• type the command services.msc from a command prompt (you will need administrator privileges to do this), then find the “Logitech Process Monitor” service, and change the “Startup type” from “Auto” to “Manual”. Do the same with the “LVSrvLauncher” service.
• type the command regedit from the command prompt (you will need administrator privileges to do this), then find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Among the other REG_SZ keys, there should be three of them related to the Logitech QuickCam, namely: “LogitechCommunicationsManager”, “LogitechQuickCamRibbon”, “LVCOMSX”. Make a backup of the registry, then remove them.
• Reboot your PC.

In this way the Logitech QuickCam daemon will be no longer available but the camera will keep working just fine with 3rd party software (e.g., Skype). If you want a less drastic solution, just kill the lvprcsrv.exe process whenever you want to use MSYS by typing at the command prompt: pskill -t lvprcsrv.exe (you will need PsTools and administrator privileges to do this). However, as soon as you will plug in the USB cable of your Logitech QuickCam, the daemon will be restarted, while with the first procedure it won’t.

This FAQ entry has been reproduced from the MinGW FAQ

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I’m still absolutely flabbergasted by how quickly this happened so thanks to everyone who chipped in towards the new devkitPro linux box. The target I set for the chipin was reached in a mere 5 hours and we even managed to raise a little bit more.

The funds paid for a rather nice Athlon64 3800+ which came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Basic which I’ll be using to help sort out the Vista issues we’ve been having. The box will dual boot Vista and Debian Etch for the purposes of building the linux editions of the devkitPro toolchains.

I have to say I’m looking forward to seeing how fast this beast can build a toolchain

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change-eabi.zip

As a short term solution to linking libraries compiled with older toolchains we’ve written a little tool to change the header of the object files. This has been tested with Krawall and Apex Audio which work fine after the change.
Note that the Krawall library files are in fact a single object file rather than a normal library archive.
Source and instructions are contained in the zip, along with a win32 binary.

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After a long and productive life the PIII 450 being used to produce the linux builds of the devkitPro toolchains has finally gone to the compiler farm in the sky.

Lynx of DSpassme.com and ndshb.com kindly offered to buy a replacement PC. Unfortunately a little research proved that, although buying a computer in the US was much cheaper, shipping costs to the UK were quite incredibly expensive. After some discussion we decided to put up a chipin button to pool donations for the new machine.

If you can spare a little cash to help out then please use the box at the top right to make a donation.

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