PSP Development Kit for Windows/Macosx

PSP Development Kit for Windows/Macosx

March 3rd, 2008, 19:51 Posted By: wraggster

This news is only of interest to serious PSP Developers:

Release/news from thefRont:

Hey there,

you probably all know the great ready-to-go PSPSDK environtment made by ZX-81
running a Xubuntu installation inside VirtualBox. If not just keep reading...

ZX-81 did a really great job with his PSPSDK environment. As far as I can tell
it has been used by many PSP developers and got a very good reputation.
My best regards go to him as I was successfully using his environment for
the past months.

Unfortunatly as time passed, the PSPSDK developed further but the environment
didn't get updated. So if you wanted to get the latest version of the SDK
you'd have to update it on your own. As updating can be a very frustrating
and time consuming issue I've finally come up with a brand new version of
such an environment.

Based on ZX-81 environment it also contains all the tools you would expect
plus some extra tools like PSPLINK and an already configured Eclipse CDT for
developing and debugging your applications.

Contents
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The package contains a fully working Xubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release with the
latest PSPSDK + Toolchain (Revision: 2365 - 02/26/2008) + additional Extras
statet below:

Additional libraries:
- freetype
- jpeg
- libogg
- libpng
- libvorbis
- pspirkeyb
- SDL
- SDL_gfx
- SDL_image
- SDL_mixer
- SDL_ttf
- zlib

Additional tools:
- psplinkusb (1.50 and 3.xx release)
- pspsh + usbhostfs (used for connecting to psplink)

Development tools:
- KDevelop (as in ZX-81 last release)
- Eclipse CDT (NEW! Can be used for developing and debugging your applications using psplink)

I've also included the Hello World Project by ZX-81 for KDevelop and Eclipse,
ready to use. The latest source of pspirc 1.1.2 by ZX-81 is also included, but
without KDevelop project files. It should compile quite nicely though.

Installation
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Installation is fairly easy. All you need is the virtual Xubuntu image (download
is about 800 MB) and an Application called Virtualbox which is used to run the
Xubuntu system in a virtualized environment.

Please note that after you extracted the virtual image it will consume up to
*4GB* of disk space. So please make sure that you have enough free disk space.

Get the virtual image here:

http://www.luaplayer.org/pspsdk-image.zip

VirtualBox can be downloaded at http://www.virtualbox.org

1. Download and extract the virtual image somewhere on your hard disk.

2. Download and install VirtualBox, then run it.

3. Create a new virtual machine, choose Linux 2.6 as OS Type and select 256 MB main memory.

4. Choose 'Existing...' at the virtual hard disk selector to open the virtual media manager.

5. Click on 'Add' and select the file you extracted in step 1.

6. Now click 'Choose' to select the hard disk, then click 'Next' and finally click 'Finish'

7. Start the virtual machine by double clicking on it and let the system boot up.

8. At the login promt enter 'psp' as username and password.

Credits
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Many thanks to ZX-81 for his great PSPSDK environment and PSP applications.
I really appreciate your great work.

A big one goes out to InsertWittyName for hosting the virtual image on his server.

And I have to thank all the developers of the PSPSDK. Without you guys this
would never have been possible.

Any Questions?
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If you have any questions on how to run this environment please feel free
to send me a PM or write an e-mail to dachande@gmx.net.
Please note that I might not answer specific questions concerning the SDK in
particular. For questions about the PSPSDK please visit http://www.pspdev.org
or check out #pspdev on irc.freenode.net

Please remember this is for serious devs only and is a 800MB download so dont abuse the bandwith.

via thefRont

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