The final build of devkitARM release 27 and associated libraries were uploaded to SF recently. These are now available through the windows installer. For the download links for other platforms see the getting started section of the wiki.

For problems, comments and support please use the forums and not the post comments.

devkitARM release 27

• Update binutils to 2.20
• Update gcc to 4.4.2
• Update to gdb 7.0
• filesystem IO now defaults to unbuffered meaning that the full length requested on read/write is passed to the devoptab pseudo device drivers.
• ds crt0 will now detect an 8meg debug system and adjust memory accordingly
• ds mpu setup has been moved to libnds for easier maintenance
• ndstool can now read ELF files directly without intermediate binary stage

libnds 1.4.0

• Bugfixes in fifo layer
• The deprecated IPC struct has now been removed
• added memCached & memUncached functions to convert pointers between those regions
• memory rearrangement to support 8meg setup
• guruMeditationDump function exposed for user code
• set correct palette on guruMeditationDump
• DS mpu setup moved from ds crt0 for ease of maintenance

dswifi 0.3.11

• use memUncached function for uncached memory.

libfat 1.0.6

• Implement read ahead cache
• Fix issues with short aliases
• Fix timestamps
• Set access and modify times on directory creation
• correct problems with overallocation of clusters.

default arm7 0.5.8

• recompiled and linked against new libraries.

libfilesystem 0.9.4

• recompiled with new headers

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Apologies for the direct links to archives in this post, the new SF system doesn’t seem to allow linking to the actual release package. These files are available from the devkitPro updater for windows users and we’ll be attempting to do some more work on the cross platform installer in the very near future.

libnds 1.3.7

• add command for PSG Wave duty, courtesy of chee
• correct extended palette macros

dswifi 0.3.10

• Corrected issue with nested interrupts
• set errno to EINPROGRESS on non blocking socket connection

default arm7 0.5.7

• Rebuilt with latest libraries

For comments on these releases please visit the forum announcement thread.

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libnds 1.3.6 and default arm7 0.5.5 are now available through the devkitPro updater.

See the forum announcement for more details.

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The latest versions of libnds, dswifi and the corresponding default arm7 binary are now available on sourceforge and through the devkitPro updater. See the forum announcement for further details.

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libnds 1.3.4 and dswifi 0.3.8 are now available through the windows updater, for more details on the updates please follow the links to the devkitPro announcements forum.

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devkitARM release 25 updates newlib to 1.17.0, gcc to 4.3.3 and adds some minor fixes to the included tools.

devkitARM release 25

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dswifi 0.3.6 is a minor bugfix release to remove constant strings which were misplaced in a header file.

dswifi 0.3.6

This release is also now available through the windows updater.

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As usual all these releases are available through the windows updater.

Important Note: breaking changes.

Interrupt initialisation is now done before main including enabling the vblank interrupt. Since the functions to do this are common to most if not all homebrew apps we decided to simplify things rather than adding extra initialisation in user code for the FIFO based command system. Calling irqInit in main will currently break your code.

The GL side of libnds has the rotation matrix fixed so it now behaves like GL on all other platforms, code which compensated for the faulty matrix will behave rather oddly now.

devkitARM release 24 is now available on sourceforge.

• binutils updated to 2.19.
• gcc updated to 4.3.2.
• newlib adds more extensions to the pseudo device stdio layers.
• thumb2 multilibs added for enhanced Cortex support.
• grit, Cearn’s image conversion tool updated to 0.8.3
• mmutil added – a support tool for the rather excellent audio library, maxmod.

devkitARM release 24

dswifi has been updated to 0.3.5, mainly a maintenance release but sees the addition of support code for the new default arm7 binary.

dswifi 0.3.5

Maintenance release for libgba which sees the dldi drivers moved from libfat.

libgba 20081210

libnds sees extensive updates

• new FIFO based communication layer for new arm7 code.
• extensive background and sprite APIs added by dovoto.
• documentation extended and improved.
• interrupts and fifo system are now initialised before main.
• gl rotation finally behaves as expected.
• trig functions extended.
• moved from alpha state date revisions to release versioning.
• low level dldi drivers moved from libfat.

libnds 1.3.1

The new default arm7 is the heart of this release set. It now contains interfaces for dswifi and maxmod along with a fifo based command system. This is designed to suit the needs of most homebrew programmers allowing them to write more complex games without having to delve into the horrors of multiprocessor code.

default arm7 20081210

Last but certainly by no means least we bring you one of the best featured audio libraries yet seen in the homebrew scene. Mukunda Johnson (eKid) has done sterling work in supporting mod, xm, s3m & it tracker formats along with APIs for sound effects and streaming audio. For full details of using this library see the updated examples and the documentation at www.maxmod.org

maxmod 1.0.1

The nds example set has been updated with many samples illustrating use of the new background API, dswifi connection and basic communication. There are several new audio samples covering microphone recording, module playback with sound effects, song events and streaming.

nds examples 20081210

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This is just a minor maintenance update to fix some linking problems.

• fix rename hook for newlib file IO layer
• fix dependency filenames for special files

As usual, the binary is available through the updater for windows users. For other platforms several binaries are provided on the devkitARM release 23b SF package. The latest buildscripts are the 20080516 package.

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• updated gdb to 6.8
• updated newlib to 1.16.0
• use static libexpat for gdb, enabling target descriptions.
• use static libgmp and libmpfr for gcc, avoiding the need for users to find their own.

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.

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