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dciabrin / ngdevkit

Open source development for Neo-Geo
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Can you make a MSYS toolchain installer for windows #47

Closed NeoGeoFreak2004 closed 3 years ago

NeoGeoFreak2004 commented 3 years ago

Hello, I want a easy way to develop neo geo aes/MVS games on windows but I can't get the toolchain or the commands to work for installing ngdevkit on windows 10 so can you please make a MSYS toolchain!

dciabrin commented 3 years ago

As expected, this is a can of worm... But progress has been made already, I can build locally gngeo, gcc, binutils, newlib and sdcc with mingw-gcc. gdb is still causing me troubles, as we need GDB 9 to support python3 on windows. Also, we don't have a package for PyGame in MSYS2, which means we'll need to rely on an official build of Python3 for windows. Which as it turns out, causes additional issues with shebangs in titletool and paltool.. This one is less serious, but it's a gap.

I'll continue pushing incremental fixes to get there.

dciabrin commented 3 years ago

With commit https://github.com/dciabrin/ngdevkit/commit/f845e9c40fb9c8f6ee562933fb08a311785667ae, you can now build the entire devkit natively on msys2. This is not as easy as installing packages with pacman, but that's a first step towards it.

I'm keeping that issue opened until I provide packages for msys2, but this is yet another big milestone.

Meanwhile, I would encourage you to give the msys2 compilation a try if you need native windows support.

tcdev42 commented 3 years ago

I've followed the instructions to the letter and can't build the toolchain under MSYS2. Have even re-installed MSYS2. Problem is each attempt to 'make' gives a different error, so it's not as if I can paste a meaningful error message. No choice but to give up on this one, at least until you're in a position to distribute binaries.

dciabrin commented 3 years ago

Yes it's pretty rough currently because this is all a moving target and I keep fixings the subprojects any time I reach a new issues. The good news i have a few commits in ngdevkit-examples to merge and with those I can consistently consume the MSYS2 packages now (for which there's no public doc right now).

The bad news is that this work on packaging made me changes bits here and there and I don't have CI jobs for building from source according to the current README.

So that's two things to fix until we can claim MSYS2 support.

tcdev42 commented 3 years ago

OK, this one was my fault. I went back to try yet again from scratch and realised I hadn't scrolled down far enough on the MSYS2 installation instructions. Apologies for the red herring. Got the devkit and the examples building.

Looking forward to giving this a go. I've done a few projects with the old neodev kit but being limited to using early versions of C has been getting old. Thanks for putting this together.

dciabrin commented 3 years ago

Done!

Nightly binary packages are now available for MSYS2, are are automatically updated on each commit in git. Have a look at the updated README.md and don't hesitate to give feedback.