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Beginners > Devkitadvance for Mac?

#38178 - jstart - Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:39 pm

I was told that there was a devkitadvance version for mac os x
I found it on sourceforge and downloaded it but i dont know what folder to put it in. project builder extras? xcode?
If anyone knows thatd be great

#38184 - Lord Graga - Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:18 pm

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=114505&package_id=124207

#38219 - wintermute - Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:02 am

it doesn't matter what folder you put it in.

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Xcode or mac based tools in general.


all you really need is a bash shell (not installed by default on some versions of OSX)

http://www.savagetranscendental.com/tip3.html

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/24/bash.html

I'm not sure of the filesystem on OSX, on linux I tend to favour /usr/local/devkitARM so ...

cd /usr/local
tar -xjvf <path to>/devkitARM_r11_OSX.tar.bz2

set your path to the freshly installed toolchain

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/devkitARM/bin

grab libgba from the sourceforge site as well

then use CVS to get some examples

see my post here for instructions

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=5245&highlight=

Last edited by wintermute on Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:46 am; edited 1 time in total

#38224 - jstart - Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:06 am

Oh so you dont use project builder or xcode can u just use terminal becaus ethe link to download bash doesn't work

#38245 - crossraleigh - Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:27 pm

If you have 10.2 or higher, Bash is already installed. Yes, you can use whatever shell your Terminal.app has as default, but you may need to export the path a different way.

GBASDK might be the version of DevKitAdvance you were thinking of. But, it's deprecated; like everyone else, I recommend devkitARM.

#38251 - jstart - Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:06 pm

Reply ok I think I get it but as this is the beginner board i'm a beginner and I don't exactly get how you program something in terminal and take it out as a .gba rom

#38257 - wintermute - Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:25 pm

crossraleigh wrote:
If you have 10.2 or higher, Bash is already installed. Yes, you can use whatever shell your Terminal.app has as default, but you may need to export the path a different way.

GBASDK might be the version of DevKitAdvance you were thinking of. But, it's deprecated; like everyone else, I recommend devkitARM.


Interesting.

Would someone like to take a look at that & see if it's possible to set up something similar with devkitARM?

#38258 - wintermute - Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:30 pm

jstart wrote:
Reply ok I think I get it but as this is the beginner board i'm a beginner and I don't exactly get how you program something in terminal and take it out as a .gba rom


Extremely good documentation can be found here

http://user.chem.tue.nl/jakvijn/tonc/toc.htm