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pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

Hi

First off, I'm newbie to c++ development, but not to programming. I've read up on c++ and in "nice friendly ides" managed to make some pieces of code compile and run (whohoo!)

But now I want to participate on the homebrew front it all thikens:...

http://wiki.ps2dev.org/psp:programming_faq

This setup didn't work at all for me. It all runs and compiles for hours when trying to setup the toolchain. But crashes randomly during setup. It all comes down to that my Windows XP box gets corrupt during running the psptoolchain script "./toolchain.sh". Symptoms are that "fork resource is not available" is reported, or that cywin-1.dll isn't the right one. After these errors no dlls will load on my computer(codecs when viewing divxx for example). So it's obvious to me that this is most likely due to that cygwin or one of it's components is crap.

Deinstalling all of that, including cygwin, and then going with devkitpro.org release 1.0.7 isn't fun either....

When trying to compile one of the samples in that distribution I get a popup box saying "libiconv-2.dll isn't found try to reinstall to fix the problem".

The only one that works for me which is "voila!" out of the box is milhouse's PSPide1.0. But this is not up to date with the latest PSPDSK and there is no mention anywhere of how to keep up to date with this.

Also, on windows and linux I've used libsdl to play around, but I have no clue on how to get it for psp and into which directory in the file structure of the three different psp dev distros listed here.

Some pointers would be greatly appreciated! :)

1. Which should I use? I prefere devkitpro, but it doesn't work (seems like it has a good editor and is easy to keep up to date, but I prefere svn over cvs... :-/ )

2. When using extra libs like libsdl, a 1-2-3 tutorial would be nice.

My system is a Windows XP SP2 box. It's a laptop with 1GB Ram and a centrino CPU. It has cygwin installed, but I suspect that it's a crap version by the cygwin ppl (the dlls become unstable and crash).

edit: added links

pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

Here is the first attempt at running the toolchain.

pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

Here is the second attempt.

pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

following a variation of this one:
http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?p=22080#22080

I got it working... goode... Now I only need to figure out how to include libsdl.

Any takers?

pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

Well, that wasn't the newest toolchain, and I can't get the compile to work.

Seems like cygwin is known to crash on large configure scripts.

Here is one (of many reports):
http://studio.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-users/2003-March/008059.html

Update:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg59047.html

Seems like the only fix is to run fewer processes, I'll try this and report back.

Update II:
Okay, that didn't work. The process ran further this time, but still it had a hard time starting new processes after a while and so it crashed with resource temp unavailable.

So now I'll try to run throught the different options one at a time, and reboot in between and see if that works.

Update III:
YES! binutils compiled, now after a reboot I'm compiling the gcc

rinco · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

toolchain.sh runs fine for me in cygwin. i doubt a bug report from 32 months ago still applies today.

chances are your memory is buggered. i find many computers ship from retail outlets without any testing whatsoever. try testing your memory by booting memtest86.

it is also likely your computer is infected with trojans and viruses. try building the toolchain on a fresh installation of windows.

or get yourself a copy of knoppix and build the toolchain in linux. cool kids use linux. (cooler kids use macosx)

pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

Nopes, I'm giving this up for now.

Running

CyberBill · Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 86 Location: Redmond, WA

Are you logged in as administrator?

You might want to try completely uninstalling cygwin, deleting the cygwin directory, and reinstalling it. Do a FULL install of EVERYTHING. After the install completes, try to run toolchain.sh.

The thing is, there are a lot of people on here who have installed the toolchain. I have, and it worked fine on two computers (work and home). Honestly memory errors are very difficult to track down, and even Memtest86 misses things. I've run it on computers for hours and it showed nothing on computers that I knew had memory problems.

If you've got more than one stick, try removing them one at a time... Run the install with your case off maybe.

rinco · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:26 am Post subject:

Cyberbill might have a valid suggestion. But a better idea is to remove pspdev (as suggested various times in the forums and irc), ie:
rm -rf /usr/local/pspdev

It sounds like all your anti-virus software is taking away so many resources that you'd probably be better off without them.

My experience so far:
- toolchain.sh works on Macosx
- toolchain.sh works on Debian
- toolchain.sh works on Cygwin (fresh windows installation with nothing else)

Also, someone (jason867?) indicated he fixed his problems by jiggering with the Hard drive settings. You may wish to find his forum post or private message him.

opicron · Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 2

I'm having the same problems. On both my gaming rig as my server I'm getting this error at the end of GCC compilation:

pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

pspblizz · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 15

Okay, here's a quick update:

devkitPRO:
Very nice, works now fine. But is missing autotools and other needed parts, so it's not possible to get and build needed libraries such as SDL and zlib etc... I tried myself to install autotools under mingw, but ended up chasing problems to why autoheader wouldn't work with any perl installation I did, so I couldn't build m4 as needed. So I gave up that chase, and have asked nicely for autotools to be included in the devkitPRO distribution.

psptoolchain:
I've posted a support request on the cygwin mailing list:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00751.html

Now lets see if the cygwin wizzards can sort me out :)