I’ll be releasing the latest iteration of devkitARM over the next day or so starting with some updates to the devkitPro components. After extensive testing I now have a toolchain which behaves properly on the Vista machines I have access to, including one Vista64 machine.

The first component to get updated is the MSYS version being used as the basis of the build system. A snapshot release of 1.0.11 is now available through the updater as usual. This sees the bash shell updated to 3.1.0, make brought up to 3.81 and now works as expected on Vista/Vista64.

MSYS 1.0.11-RC1

This file is required only for windows users and should be installed through the updater rather than updating manually.

I expect devkitARM release 21 to be available on the 23rd or 24th and downloadable from the automatic installer shortly thereafter.

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Thanks to all your nominations in the SourceForge Community Choice Awards devkitPro has reached the final stage of voting and is in the category for “Best Tool or Utility for developers”. The final results will be announced at the during the CCA party on July 26th at OSCON in Portland so we’d like to take advantage of your generosity a little more and ask you to vote for devkitPro one more time.

The list of nominees can be found on the SourceForge Nominees Page or you can go directly to the voting page below. Voting will end on July 20th.

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SourceForge are looking for nominations for this year’s Community Choice Awards. If you use the devkitPro toolchains and you have a SourceForge login perhaps you’d like to nominate us

There don’t seem to be too many details on what the prizes might be but why not give us a chance to find out

UPDATE: Most nominations appear to be going to the “Best Tool or Utility for Developers” category. Since it appears that projects are chosen by the number of nominations in a category we have the best chance if you nominate us in that category.

I also found out what the prize is - from the awards FAQ :-

“If my project wins, what do I get?
You get the bragging rights, and the glory that comes with knowing that your project was deemed by the community to be the best of the best within each category. You also get the option to keep your “winner” icon posted up on your project page forever, and we will send you a handy-dandy certificate, suitable for framing, to put on your wall.”

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The latest devkitPro installer has been rebuilt with the latest NSIS compiler and uses the newest inetc plugin. There is now a progress dialog when the installer is upgrading itself and when downloading the latest release info. This should make it clearer what’s happening at each stage.

devkitPro Updater 1.4.4

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My birthday is on Sunday so if you feel like buying me a beer then please feel free to make use of the donation button

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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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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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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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A new version of the devkitPro updater/installer has been released.

devkitPro Updater 1.4.2 has been rebuilt with the latest NSIS 2.23 and a more recent version of the inetc plugin used for downloading files. This should be more stable and hopefully remove the installer crashes some people have been experiencing.

devkitPro Updater 1.4.2

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