DS Linux toolchain: unable to compile custom configuration

[Mark Ngbapai]

Ewan: My DS is equipped with the standard 8MB expansion memory pack
included with the Nintendo DS Browser.I bought the Nintendo DevSys
Lite primarily as an ARM946E-S "development board" for introduction to
ARM architecture and embedded systems. I know the iPhone 3GS has a
different (Cortex A8 + NEON ) processor architecture and a BSD based
OS, but the NDS and uClinux (DSLinuX) are serving  my purposes well.

I'll try "svn diff" next week since in my current location I only have
available limited connection time and bandwitdh (just for emails)

Thanks All for your help.














On 7/4/11, Ewan Meadows <ewan.meadows at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate to say it, but personally I wouldn't use a Nintendo DS, let
> alone DSLinux, as a stepping stone to iPhone development.  The
> experience you will gain with DSLinux won't come in very handy for
> iPhone development at all.
>
> You'd be far, far better off learning C on a different platform that
> is still being supported in my opinion.
>
> But anyway....
>
>> Ewan, I selected the DLDI build (because I want to have a writable
>> home dir) and have included libnet and ncurses. I also have included
>> the basic utilities: ls, ftp, ssh, wnc, etc...
> I don't understand how you 'included' ftp/ssh etc as these are already
> included.  To have these programs all you need to do is make
> menuconfig, select the DLDI build and hit make.
>
> With regard to libnet, you do realise that there is no libnet source
> in the DSLinux tree, only the option in the menu to build it.  This is
> because DSLinux's build system was inherited from another project.  If
> you want to build libnet you'll have to download the source and put it
> in the right place in the tree.
>
>> I didn't select warp and playtzx, just the basic options in order to have
>> a
>> "standard" DSLinux build like the one available for download.
> These apps are enabled by default in the DLDI build, I mentioned them
> as they are not building correctly with later versions of make.
>
>> Compiling small c code in the "make xsh" shell works, so I'm able to
>> port small c applications that work in DSLinux. porting apps like
>> "netdiscover" is a different thing, though.
> The problem you are going to run into is that the libraries included
> with DSLinux are getting very old now, so it's a lot of work to port
> newer software.
>
> Also you haven't mentioned whether you have got a supported GBA RAM
> pack in Slot-2.  Without one of these you'll find DSLinux pretty much
> useless as the kernel alone will take up most of the DS's 4MB RAM.
>
> (lo stsp, pepsiman btw!)
>
>>
>> On 7/4/11, Ewan Meadows <ewan.meadows at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, so there's a few bits and bobs that no longer compile for one
>>> reason or another.  I grabbed the current SVN and found that I had to
>>> disable warp, playtzx and update a few configuration entries.
>>>
>>> I'll dig my DS out sometime this week to test and submit a patch
>>>
>>> On 3 July 2011 15:30, Ewan Meadows <ewan.meadows at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I've just tried downloading and building on Ubuntu 11.04, seems to be
>>>> working fine.  Which options did you change do you think might have
>>>> broken it?
>>>>
>>>> On 3 July 2011 07:51, Malcolm Parsons <malcolm.parsons at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2 July 2011 04:29, Mark Ngbapai <lightningbolt31 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> make -C extra/config conf
>>>>>> make[4]: Entering directory
>>>>>> `/home/Streamer/C/dslinux/lib/uClibc++/extra/config'
>>>>>> make[4]: *** ../../.config: Is a directory.  Stop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone in #dsdev said they had to use an older version of make to
>>>>> build DSLinux,
>>>>> but they didn't say why.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have no idea why .config is a directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Malcolm Parsons
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