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Garak · Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 46

Greetings,

I am attempting to install the PSP SDL. I am currently running cygwin on Windows. I am using the PSPSDK 4.01 & Toolchain
psptoolchain-20050725.tar for linux. I have compiled numerous programs, so I am sure my basic environment is setup correctly. I believe I successfully installed the SDL from SVN (build 1025). It would seem the header files were copied to /usr/local/include/SDL, while some library files were placed in /usr/local/lib.

I would like to write a simple app that includes and uses the SDL environment. My first attempt was to hijack one of the very simple sample files from the PSPSDK, but that was quite a failure. I attempted to edit the make file to include the SDL header files and library, but that turned out so bad I won't bother embarrassing myself by posting it here.

I know that SDL has some test apps I can build, but after looking at them I have no idea how to build them. And from the looks of it they do not appear to be PSP "ready".

Does anyone have an example of how to setup a makefile and compile an SDL app? Also, based on my description of the location of my SDL files, did they get installed to the right directories? Any help would be really appreciated!

mrbrown · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 1536

There's a file SDL for PSP distribution named README.PSP that contains instructions on how to build and link against SDL.

Garak · Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 46

Thank you,

The build instructions state:

To build for the PSP, make sure psp-config is in the path and run:

./autogen.sh
LDFLAGS="-L`psp-config --pspsdk-path`/lib -lc -lpspuser" \
./configure --host psp --prefix=`psp-config --psp-prefix`
make
make install

OK... Whats with the
LDFLAGS="-L`psp-config --pspsdk-path`/lib -lc -lpspuser" \

What do I do with that portion? Is that a command in itself, or a command line argument to autogen.sh?

cheriff · Regular Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 262 Location: Sydney.au

the \ at the end of the line usually means that while stuff is written over two lines, it should really be entered as a single one.

so that line sets the LDFLAGS environment varible for when you run ./configure. So you should be able to just enter:

Garak · Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 46

I figured that may be the case, but I have had no luck installing the SDL with any combiniation of typing stuff on a single, or multiple lines. I typed the line just as you stated, and I received the following error:

@gold-leader:~/psphome/devtools/SDL
>LDFLAGS="-L`psp-config --pspsdk-path`/lib -lc -lpspuser" ./configure --host psp
--prefix=`psp-config --psp-prefix`
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/lib -lc -lpspuser: Command not found.

Any ideas as to what the problem could be?

cheriff · Regular Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 262 Location: Sydney.au

are you doing this in a normal winXP command box, or the funky cygwin bash shell? You need the cygwin one, i guess.

IF that still fails to work, look in you're .bashrc file in your homedir in cygwin. Hopefully there's some samples on how to set environment values. (you should have at least managed to set PSPSDK in there, to get thus far, right?) and do the same to set LDFLAGS to "-L`psp-config --pspsdk-path`/lib -lc -lpspuser" .
then

rinco · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject:

Best place to start would be tests/SDL/ in the psp repository.

Failing that, there are several SDL games in the pspware repository....
trailblazer, vecteroids, abrick, REminiscence, lopan, eggchess, SMC. Maybe even VisualBoyAdvance...?.

And somewhere in the forums is a Makefile for SMS/SDL.

Garak · Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 46

Thank you all for your help.

Cheriff, I am using the funky cygwin c-shell. As it turns out that was my problem. I switched to the BASH shell (Cygwin's default) and ran the commnd as 1 line as you sudgested earlier. In Bash it compiled with no problems. I even compiled the test program sudgested by rinco and it worked great.

Again thank you all for the help, it's greatly appreciated!

cheriff · Regular Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 262 Location: Sydney.au

cool. I didnt even realise cygwin shipped with anything other than bash!
glad to help, tho :)
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pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

I have two problems following those instructions after having downloaded the libsdl with svn.

First this part: "--prefix=`psp-config --psp-prefix`" gives this error:

rinco · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

The --psp-prefix parameter was added to psp-config long long ago. So you need to update your toolchain. Perhaps there is a newer version of devkitpro...? If not, hassle WinterMute.

ayatollah · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

I have the same problem when I try to build SDL!

I have been searching here for hours but I can not find a solution on this problem. I downloaded devkitProUpdater-1.0.9.exe, have the FULL install and work on MinSys with msysDTK-1.0.1.exe.

I installed:
msys-autoconf-2.59-src.tar.bz2
msys-automake-1.8.2-src.tar.bz2

and when I follow the Instructions in the README.PSP in SDL SVN repository:

skeezixcodejedi · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 29

Check the logfile it mentions, and scan up to the actual 'error' lines in question. You'll be able to see the tiny 'C' program it wrote to do the test, and the error messages. Chances are it just can't find the libs needed to produce the executable.. ie: For PSP, it needs to have the pspkernel and other libs. So in the LDOCNFIG= part, you may need to add some -L to locate the right lism or even some -l's to include the right libs.

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ayatollah · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

Thanx for the HINT...

I checked the log file but there was only some strange char in the Path to the SDK so I simply used