Using devkit arm on a netwalker

[marovada]

Hi,

I just bought a sharp netwalker which contains an arm omap processor. I tried to build devkitARM on the netwalker using the build-devkit.sh script in a console window. I chose to download any needed sources. I checked that the netwalker (which runs ubuntu) had wget installed and build-essential tools (using apt-get).

However, when I run the build script it just says that the source packages cannot be found - even with the download option

I then tried to manually download the sources: gcc, newlib and binutils, but the script then said that gcc-g++ could not be found

Is anyone able to help? I would have thought that it would be possible to build devkitARM for arm linux?

The netwalker already has gcc installed but I presume this wouldn't cross compile for nintendo ds without devkit arm

[WinterMute]

Sorry to take so long getting to this, been kind of buried in toolchain updates recently. There will be an updated set of buildscripts released fairly soon after I finalise devkitARM release 27 but this should help in the meantime.

The gcc-g++ issue is due to a workaround for an old Sourceforge issue at the time the last set of scripts were released. Unfortunately their fix broke our workaround.

change this line in build-devkit.sh

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GCC_GPP_URL="$DEVKITPRO_URL/gcc-g%2B%2B-$GCC_VER.tar.bz2"

to

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GCC_GPP_URL="$DEVKITPRO_URL/gcc-g++-$GCC_VER.tar.bz2"

The native netwalker gcc will be built for arm-linux which isn't suitable for building nds code, no. In any case I would assume that the native libraries will be optimised for the particular ARM chip in the netwalker.

How is the netwalker btw? It looks like a nice piece of kit.

[marovada]

Thanks Wintermute, I'll try this.

Netwalker is great. Processor is very fast (I'm running a workable Windows 95 in bochs ). Battery life is excellent. Standby/resume is excellent (generally 2-3 secs). Ubuntu is great. Downside is crappy keyboard (usable but hit and miss because of 'rocky' keys).

[marovada]

I must have a very old version of the build script - downloaded from the sourceforge page (may 09). Do you have a link to the latest build script?