#68257 - omoplata - Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:40 am
hi guys.
I'm new in DS dev and I have a few questions:
- Is the LibNds witch is in the devkitpro an official DS library? I guess no but how these guys have managed to do it?
- Is there a way to debug the homebrews in an IDE? I've built some demos and tested them on my DS. But If I have to put my files in my DS every time I want to test, it will be very long. Maybe there is a way to use an emulator and to bind the process to the sources in order to trace and to do real time debugging??
Thanks for your answers ;-)
tib
#68270 - linus - Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:49 am
NDSLIB is not official (if you mean supported by Nintendo) but it is what most people use (in fact i dont know an alternative)
No there is no real way of debugging, some of the emulators give memory and cpu visualisations but nothing like stepping to my knowledge
#68272 - omoplata - Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:06 pm
thank you for the answer!!
#68284 - SeanMon - Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:42 pm
DSemu has a built in debugger/code stepper. It is also the only open-source ds emulator that I know of.
#68401 - omoplata - Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:25 am
Ok so it would be possible to trace and debug our code? Or only the DSEmu code?
#69870 - genfish - Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:52 pm
i use the ideas emulator, its pretty good. not sure it has a debugger though.
#70110 - Mrshlee - Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:14 am
wait until NO$DS :)
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#70262 - HyperHacker - Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:27 am
How much will the debugger cost though? Your first born?
#70307 - wintermute - Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:22 pm
| HyperHacker wrote: |
| How much will the debugger cost though? Your first born? |
Basic version is $15
#70321 - acox - Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:39 pm
| omoplata wrote: |
- Is there a way to debug the homebrews in an IDE? I've built some demos and tested them on my DS. But If I have to put my files in my DS every time I want to test, it will be very long. Maybe there is a way to use an emulator and to bind the process to the sources in order to trace and to do real time debugging??
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Devkit Pro comes with gdb/insight which are the standard gnu commandline debugger and graphical extension. They are full source-level (i.e., step through your C/C++, not just through hex and assembly) debugging tools used widely outside the homebrew world with a small bit of code that sits on the target development hardware and speaks a remote debugging protocol with gdb.
Visual Boy advance implements this protocol for debugging the gba. None of the DS emus do this yet as far as I know but I would encourage their authors to put it in instead of spending time on their own built-in debuggers.
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