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| Setting up the toolchain |
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toolchain, devkitpro, devkitppc | July 24, 2018 | dev_sidebar | dev_toolchain_setup.html | dev | topnav |
To compile homebrew for the Wii U, you need the devkitPro Toolchain, the offical "getting started" can be found here.
Windows
On Windows you can use the graphical installer to install devkitpro.
After installing you can open MSYS (Start -> devkitPro -> MSYS) and check if the needed packages are installed and on the newest version.
yes | pacman -Syu devkitPPC --needed
yes | pacman -Syu devkitARM --needed
yes | pacman -Syu general-tools --needed
Make sure the following environment variables are set:
DEVKITPRO=/opt/devkitpro
DEVKITARM=/opt/devkitpro/devkitARM
DEVKITPPC=/opt/devkitpro/devkitPPC
Unix
The offical installation guide can be found here: https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Unix-like_platforms
Basically you need to grab the newest devkitpro pacman version and install the devkitPPC, devkitARM and general-tools package.
Example commands for installing:
# Download newest deb file. (URL might be outdated in the future)
wget https://github.com/devkitPro/pacman/releases/download/devkitpro-pacman-1.0.1/devkitpro-pacman.deb -O /tmp/devkitpro-pacman.deb
# Install it
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/devkitpro-pacman.deb
# Install needed packages
yes | sudo dkp-pacman -Syu devkitPPC --needed
yes | sudo dkp-pacman -Syu devkitARM --needed
yes | sudo dkp-pacman -Syu general-tools --needed
After installing, make sure the following environment variables are set:
DEVKITPRO=/opt/devkitpro
DEVKITARM=/opt/devkitpro/devkitARM
DEVKITPPC=/opt/devkitpro/devkitPPC
Pacman information
More information on how to use pacman can be found here
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