Devkitppc setup (Linux)
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Installing devkitPPC from devkitPro packages
- Follow the instructions on Official Installation Guide
- Optionally, find out your Wii's IP with the homebrew channel and add
export WIILOAD=tcp:192.168.1.5 # replace this by your Wii's IP
- Restart your terminal or type
source ~/.bashrc
Compiling a Hello World
- Enter devkitpro/wii-examples/template and simply type
make
- To run the example on your Wii, start the homebrew channel and type
make run
Voilà! You just compiled your first Wii program!
Compiling Insight Debugger
A custom version of the Insight graphical debugger is distributed by devkitPro, however currently there are no linux binaries available. In order to successfully compile the source under linux, you need to run the following sequence of commands from the directory where you unpacked the source:
for f in `find`; do dos2unix ${f}; done
./configure --target=powerpc-gekko
make
make install prefix=/directory/to/install/to
Using DDD (GNU Data Display Debugger)
An alternative to Insight is DDD
It has the advantage that you won't have to compile it on linux
For instance to install it on ubuntu just use the following command:
sudo apt-get install ddd
Then you use ddd with powerpc-eabi-gdb with the following:
ddd --debugger path-to-powerpc-eabi-gdb
And finally you can use the console at the bottom to connect to your wii and load the symbols as you would using gdb from the console
For instructions on how to use gdb or insight for remote debugging, see Remote Debugging with GDB
