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Coding > devkitARM nomenclature?

#147935 - tepples - Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:22 pm

In this post, wintermute wrote:
Is there any chance people could stop doing this?

devkitPro is the toolchain vendor, you don't upgrade it.

I'm pretty sure this comes from people reading "devkitPro Updater" as "tool to update devkitPro", just as "Windows Update" is "tool to update Windows". So what is the thing that devkitPro Updater installs? What is the correct name for the combination of devkitARM proper (gcc + binutils + various other tools), plus the versions of libgba, libnds, and libfat designed to work with that release of devkitARM? Would something like "devkitARM Suite r21" be anywhere near correct?
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#148208 - wintermute - Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:02 pm

Well, firstly you could view the devkitPro updater as an updater for the packages supplied by devkitPro, secondly Windows Update has been replaced by Microsoft Update.

I've never really considered the various packages as a group, other than libgba, libnds, libfat & dswifi being platform specific support libraries for use with devkitARM.

devkitARM itself is a generic ARM compiler which supports a sizeable subset of the processors released by ARM. Many people here see the toolchain as purely for DS perhaps because they're not aware of the GP32 & GBA support and few of the Nintendo fans here venture into ARM experimentor boards.

The support libraries aren't designed to work with particular releases of devkitARM although several recent updates to the toolchain have featured patches to support updates in the libraries themselves. The last few releases of libnds have coincided with devkitARM releases mainly because of updates in the toolchain itself for things like the standard time functions.
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#148216 - kusma - Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:47 pm

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wintermute wrote:
and few of the Nintendo fans here venture into ARM experimentor boards

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*cough* :)
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#148262 - wintermute - Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:36 am

Sweet!

What is that? Have you tried using devkitARM to build code for it?
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#148284 - kusma - Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:07 am

wintermute wrote:
What is that?

Those are a new line of quad-core ARM11 devboards (not for sale yet AFAIK) that we've been working on. The chip has an integrated Mali200 chip. Here's a video of it running.

wintermute wrote:
Have you tried using devkitARM to build code for it?

Nope, I mostly use RVDS or CodeSourcery G++ for work. The platforms run ARM Embedded Linux. Can devkitARM link applications for linux? I'm not really into the hackery of making my own images and so on...

#148744 - gauauu - Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:48 pm

wintermute wrote:
Is there any chance people could stop doing this?


If it bothers you, I'd suggest trying to add some more explanation of this on the website, etc. I've been confused about it from the beginning ;-)

#149148 - tepples - Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:13 am

In the libfat page, chishm wrote:
libfat is packaged as part of DevkitPro. Download the DevkitPro Updater and run it to start the installation.

If it confuses Chishm, I would imagine that it would confuse a lot of people.
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