devkitPro

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

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
to
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.

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).

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?