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Beginners > Bimbo Substitute For Linux

#172904 - nathanpc - Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:05 am

Hello,
I'm a Linux user that is following this tutorial to start some simple things with ARM Assembly(to challenge myself and learn more about the platformas I've done with MIPS), but on the 4th chapter it uses Bimbo, then I want to know if there is any alternative for Linux.

Best Regards,
Nathan Paulino Campos

#172909 - wintermute - Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:17 am

Hopefully you're using devkitARM, in which case you already have grit. See http://www.coranac.com/man/grit/html/index.htm for details. The latest devkitARM uses arm-eabi rather than the arm-elf in those tutorials which was the case 20 releases ago.
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#172920 - nathanpc - Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:42 pm

As I'm very expeienced with cross-compiling(in this case canadian-cross), I've just cross-compiled binutils targeted to arm-elf, then I'm going to see what I can do to get grit. ;)

Thanks.

#172928 - wintermute - Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:08 pm

Building your own tools really isn't the best way to go about this. There are a few more things you need for GBA development apart from binutils. crt0, linkscript and a tool to fix the required GBA header at a minimum. All of these and more are supplied by devkitARM.

If you're going your own way regardless then it's going to be rather difficult for anyone to help.
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