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ooPo

After releasing the previous toolchain update on my site and watching some of the problems people had, I've updated it:

http://dev.oopo.net/files/psptoolchain-20070517.tar.bz2

There's been no changes to the patches, they're the same as you'd get with the current psptoolchain in the subversion repository.

Now for the why.

1) The toolchain script has grown annoying to manage.
2) There's a lot of random stuff added to the script instead of doing things like properly merging patches.
3) Checking dependencies before running is very important - adding more should be easy to do.

So, here's the new-style script:

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

that's a good way to modulate this script. I think there would be no objection.

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

well i failed with ncurse because I havn't /usr/lib/libncurses.so which is normal because i'm under cygwin and not under linux.

I think you toolchain need to be aware whether the host is windows or linux (or MacOX ?).

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

oh well, if a novice wants to install it, he/she would run into troubles :

Error : PSPDEV not set <== why not to propose one by default when not set ? usually /usr/local/pspdev as it is with the current psptoolchain.

I don't expect him/her to do a "export PSPDEV=/usr/local/pspdev" every time before running the toolchain.

I think you must fix those things before replacing the current psptoolchain with this one.

1) be sure it works like a charm under every (cygwin, linux, MacOS X)
2) don't let your scripts to be too petty. Whenever you have a variable not set, try to propose one by default so that people wanting just a working compiler to be able to compile a source they retrieve can do it without any knowledge about scripts

ooPo · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:07 am Post subject:

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

Go for it! Looks good to me.

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

anyway, by just ignoring the ncurse check, i was able to run psptoolchaintool up to the end, so I suppose configure is able to retrieve ncurse even under cygwin.

ooPo · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject:

ooPo · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject:

http://dev.oopo.net/files/psptoolchain-20070518.tar.bz2

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

i tried psp-gdb, psp-gdbtui and psp-insight which seem to work perfectly (psp-gdbtui should use ncurse, right ?)

so i think you can go now

futaris · Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 45

Don't suppose the script can be modified to download the .tar.gz and .tar.bz2's to a PSP_DL environment variable. Openembedded, buildroot, etc do something similar, so we can just download everything to one directory.

weltall · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 310

sorry but where are the 4.0.2 patches? they are no more useful as 4.1.0 is now stable? the latest time I've used it I had a lot of problems with the resulting elfs doing strange things (more in optimized states like O3)

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

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ooPo · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 4:15 am Post subject:

Luke · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

Is this only an update to the toolchain-install-script or does this update the toolchain? If so, how do I do that? Can I simply run the new script?

weltall · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 310

ooPo · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:31 am Post subject:

Luke · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

Cool, thanks! And by the way: Great work! Really. PSP-Programming rocks! Thanks for making this possible for me!

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

weltall · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 310

Alek · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 10

Err... didn't say anything xD

Installing well, good job :)

lmame · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 2 Location: July City

Hi ^_^

First of all thank you for the toolchain and this new script, I'm quite new to psp dev world and for now I was just using oslib / pspsdk / cygwin under windows and when I saw your new script I decided to give it a try under Linux :)

I managed really simply to install and run things unit the last script until the last script is called: 008-insight-6.4.sh :
When the make -j 2 is run, I got this error (one line lost in an ocean of text):

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

ooPo :

gcc 4.2 is out, it has less regressions than gcc 4.1. It might be interesting to use it instead, provided that the current patches are still applyable.

gcc 4.2 : [ all : 252, serious : 129 ]
gcc 4.1 : [ all : 297, serious : 173 ]

EDIT : silly of me ! I wrote 2.x instead of 4.x !!!

ufoz · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 86 Location: Tokyo

Surely you mean 4.2?

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

arfff yes it is 4.x not 2.x 8x !!!!

hlide · Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 750

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!

the option "-mpreferred-stack-boundary=n" is not longer valid in this version !!!! still I modified some gcc files in gcc/config/mips directory so we can change the alignment requirement for stack !? does it means you use a different mips patch !?

now some of my sources are broken because of that.

jimparis · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 1179 Location: Boston

Isn't relying on stack alignment a bit broken anyway? I thought even "-mpreferred-stack-boundary" is just an attempt not a guarantee. You could use memalign if alignment matters.