Lesson 01
Setting up the Development Environment
Get the toolchain and PSPSDK up and running with CYGWIN.
This is part two of Lesson 01. If you have not completed part one,
do so now.
Now, we are going to install the toolchain into our CYGWIN environment. To set up our environment, we will need to run CYGWIN first. So, either from the start menu, or from "C:/cygwin," run a CYGWIN bash shell (cygwin.bat). This will open up a command line. Once you see "yourusername@yourcomputername ~" you may close the window; your environment has successfully set up.
To download the latest toolchain, go here. It should be at
the top one. At the time of writing, the latest toolchain file is dated 20051202.
Download this file. When it is finished, use Winrar to extract the file contents to "C:/cygwin/home/user,"
where "user" is your username.
Now it's time to actually install, so open up your CYGWIN bash shell again. Now it's time to introduce
you to the Linux command line. You should see a "$" at the beginning of the line. This means that you are
running the shell in user mode, as opposed to root (or admin) mode. This is of little importance in
CYGWIN, but if you ever use an actual Linux command line, this is an important thing to notice.
We now need to change directories to where we extracted the toolchain. Type "ls" in the bash shell; this stands for list. It will give us an output of all of the files in our current directory (this is similar to "dir" in a Windows command line). Now you should see a folder named "psptoolchain," this is where we want to go. So type "cd psptoolchain" and hit enter. CD stands for change directory, and it will (obviously) switch the current operating directory). Now do a quick "ls" again, and you will see the files in this folder. The one that we are going to use to set everything up is "toolchain.sh."
Due to a recent problem with the toolchain, we need to update everything, so to get the updates and have them modify the toolchain script, you will need to type "svn update" and hit enter.
After that is finished, execute the updated script by typing "./toolchain.sh" and hitting enter. In Linux, "." means the current directory, and ".." means the parent directory, so this command means to execute "toolchain.sh," which is in the current directory. The toolchain.sh script will do the rest, for you. This can take up to several hours, depending on the specifications of your machine. For a frame of reference, my 3.0GHz Pentium 4 took about three hours to run the entire script, so be patient. Some people have reported it taking over 24 hours, but this is a little overkill. Go take a break and come back in a few hours. Or better yet, let it go while you sleep and when you wake up in the morning you should be ready for the next step.
Tomorrow morning, you'll be ready for the third (and final) step. See you in the morning!
Now, we are going to install the toolchain into our CYGWIN environment. To set up our environment, we will need to run CYGWIN first. So, either from the start menu, or from "C:/cygwin," run a CYGWIN bash shell (cygwin.bat). This will open up a command line. Once you see "yourusername@yourcomputername ~" you may close the window; your environment has successfully set up.
We now need to change directories to where we extracted the toolchain. Type "ls" in the bash shell; this stands for list. It will give us an output of all of the files in our current directory (this is similar to "dir" in a Windows command line). Now you should see a folder named "psptoolchain," this is where we want to go. So type "cd psptoolchain" and hit enter. CD stands for change directory, and it will (obviously) switch the current operating directory). Now do a quick "ls" again, and you will see the files in this folder. The one that we are going to use to set everything up is "toolchain.sh."
Due to a recent problem with the toolchain, we need to update everything, so to get the updates and have them modify the toolchain script, you will need to type "svn update" and hit enter.
After that is finished, execute the updated script by typing "./toolchain.sh" and hitting enter. In Linux, "." means the current directory, and ".." means the parent directory, so this command means to execute "toolchain.sh," which is in the current directory. The toolchain.sh script will do the rest, for you. This can take up to several hours, depending on the specifications of your machine. For a frame of reference, my 3.0GHz Pentium 4 took about three hours to run the entire script, so be patient. Some people have reported it taking over 24 hours, but this is a little overkill. Go take a break and come back in a few hours. Or better yet, let it go while you sleep and when you wake up in the morning you should be ready for the next step.
Tomorrow morning, you'll be ready for the third (and final) step. See you in the morning!