KOS In Unix systems

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Re: KOS In Unix systems

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Stryfe wrote:
root670 wrote:I'm having similar problems trying to get the toolchain to build. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 x64. I grabbed the latest revision with SVN and ran the download.sh script, followed by the unpack.sh script. Before running make, I changed the prefixes to this:

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sh_prefix  := $(HOME)/Dreamcast/dc/toolchain/$(sh_target)
arm_prefix := $(HOME)/Dreamcast/dc/toolchain/$(arm_target)
Have you tried the full path instead of the '$(HOME)' variable, or even just '$HOME' without brackets?
This whole issue with $HOME is why I switched to what OSX made "standard" - using /opt. It's now very common for toolchains to go into /opt/toolchains/<platform>, which is what I use. Of course, that doesn't help KOS_BASE any. My environ.sh uses

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export KOS_BASE="/home/jlfenton/Projects/Dreamcast/kos"

export KOS_CC_BASE="/opt/toolchains/dc/sh-elf"		# DC

export DC_ARM_BASE="/opt/toolchains/dc/arm-elf"

export PATH="${PATH}:${KOS_CC_BASE}/bin:/opt/toolchains/dc/bin"
That last bit with a bin directory in the dc directory instead of one of the sh or arm directories is where I keep scramble and all the other x86 tools used for building things.

In the makefile for the toolchain, I just have the prefixes set like this:

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sh_prefix  := /opt/toolchains/dc/$(sh_target)
arm_prefix := /opt/toolchains/dc/$(arm_target)
Assuming you have all the crazy dependencies gcc needs to build, it then goes through without a hitch on Xubuntu.
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Re: KOS In Unix systems

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I deleted build-gdb- and the target folder (/home/wes/Dreamcast) from /home/wes. I also noticed two broken symbolic links in that folder (arch and dc were their names). I then deleted the whole kos folder that had all of the files from the SVN. I ran "sudo svn co https://cadcdev.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cadcdev kos"

Ran the two scripts in the dc-chain folder, then changed the makefile like i did before, instead using my actual home directory in place of $(HOME). Also changed kos_root to /home/wes/kos for good measure. The prefixes were changed to what Chilly WIlly suggested.

The environ.sh script has been modified with Chilly Willy's suggestions. I ran "sudo make" and it took about 1 hour to complete. Finally got the toolchain built! :)

Now on to building KOS and making sure environ.sh is working. Thanks everyone!

Edit: kos and kos-ports built successfully!
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Re: KOS In Unix systems

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Great news! By the way, if you change the permission on /opt, you should be able to build everything without sudo. /opt is supposed to be accessible to any user, and you should be able to access your own home. If you don't want to change all of /opt, you could just change /opt/toolchains instead. Just do "sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/toolchains" to allow any user access to toolchains. You can stick with sudo if you want, I just like not having to sudo any time I update the toolchain or associated libraries/tools.
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Re: KOS In Unix systems

Post by N64VSNES »

I've finally gotten the KOS to compile, well it was a few days ago but I've had internet problems.

Anywhoo, Everything has compiled fine, the kos-ports and even dcload has compiled and is working just fine.
However, I think something has gone wrong behind the scenes.

For example, if I compile the pvrmark example, and send it to my DC then it runs just fine. No compile or runtime errors.

However, if I create a directory in the examples folder and call it "custom", compile it, I get this:

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make: *** No rule to make target `pvrmark.o', needed by `pvrmark.elf'. Stop.
I've literally copied the contents from one directory, to another, so this should mean there is no reason to fail.

When I change the makefile to directly look for the source files, it just gives me a link error saying undefined reference to "_start". (Entry point I believe?)

EDIT:
It seems the issue getting DC load only exists when I compile a C++ program, C programs work fine.
Now I'm really puzzledd :?:

For all the test programs I've written, when it does compile, I send it to my Dreamcast and dcload just says "executing" and hangs there. It's definitely not a problem with dcload as it sends the examples just fine though.

Am completely puzzled, any suggestions? :?
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