http://www.devkitpro.org devkitPro - professional toolchains at amateur prices. Fri, 16 May 2008 22:29:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. ... http://www.devkitpro.org/devkitarm/devkitarm-release-23b/ 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 ... http://www.devkitpro.org/devkitarm/devkitarm-release-23-now-available/ The Insight builds available for windows have now been rebuilt with a static libexpat to allow use of target descriptions. Insight 6.8.50 20080425 release http://www.devkitpro.org/insight/insight-updated/ 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. nds examples 20080427 The next libnds release is still a work in progress, more news as it's available. http://www.devkitpro.org/libnds/libnds-example-code-update/ The latest release of the ARM toolchain is now available. There are a number of improvements binutils updated to 2.18.50 gcc updated to 4.3.0 grit updated to 0.8 ndstool now uses default.arm7 from libnds directory newlib multibyte code enabled with C-UTF8 locale devkitPro Updater 1.4.6 now downloads and installs the default.arm7 file used for arm9 only ... http://www.devkitpro.org/devkitpro/devkitarm-release-22/ 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 ... http://www.devkitpro.org/homebrew-scene/akkitorg-optimisation-competition/ 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. http://www.devkitpro.org/devkitppc/devkitppc-osx-installer-package/ 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 ... http://www.devkitpro.org/devkitpro/google-summer-of-code/ 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 ... http://www.devkitpro.org/devkitpro/insight-package-update/ 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. buildscripts 20080308 These scripts will build devkitARM r21, devkitPPC r14 and the current iteration ... http://www.devkitpro.org/devkitpro/updated-buildscripts-available/