Toolchain help!!!

[frmariam]

I'm almost on holliday break and the idea of psp progamming is growing on me. I'm also trying to interest my friends in computer cience but for the while they are busy...

I've been trying to install psptoolchain for some days but always get some errors. I've read Yeldarb tutorial but it just doen't work. I've tried cygwin and even a live cd of Linspire 5's Kate advanced notepad and get the some error?

I think that my username "João" seems to cause bugs with some apps because of the "ã".

I know I never coded before but I just wanted to tweak some sources I have around... Could someone help or post the 'svn' or working toolchain?

P.S.: Here's an image with some info

[Fanjita]

Looks like you need to tweak your cygwin installation to make sure svn is installed.

Check the stickies in the pspsdk forums at ps2dev.org for info on how to tweak cygwin, install the toolchain and for general support with it.

[cyanide]

seems like a problem with cygwin...

[frmariam]

Yeah I thought it would be cygwin... Still I couldn't run it from a Linux?!
Has anyone tried the latest toolchain(20051202)?

And I did try to install all the files with svn in it when installing cygwin...
Don't know what's the prob... Guess I'll have to wait untill I see one of my friends and ask for help (I have a few days free but I'm in my hometown and have to wait till next weak or after xmas break )

[cyanide]

ive tried the latest toolchain and it works perfectly here

[frmariam]

That is so wierd... I just downloaded the whole devel!!! And I still get the same error... I even used the tar xfvz psptoolchain.tgz... After the chmod, when I try to run toolchain.sh it still gives an error and says to check if I have the svn installed... I have the whole devel

Does anyone know if there are issues in some apps because of some chars in the username such as ~? Because if so, I'll have to format my pc and I left my cd's in my room back in Coimbra...

I'm mad with this stupid issue... All help is welcome

[Garak]

The first thing you should do is check to see if you have SVN installed. From the looks of things you do not have it. Open a cygwin window and type "svn" (without the quotes) and press enter. If it say's:

svn: Command not found.

You don't have svn installed. If you don't have SVN installed, you cannot install the toolchain, as the toolchain uses this program to download all the files it plans to install on your PC.

How do you get SVN you ask? When you installed cygwin, you "should" have done a complete install and let it install ALL the cygwin packages. Doing a full re-install of cygwin will ensure you get SVN. But, you could just do a search for svn in google, and install only that program, that is what I would do.

Garak

[frmariam]

I did it! And I did have svn!

I don't know if its either a Cygwin, psptoolchain or svn issue but it doesn't like my username. I just hope someone checks this out. If you have an username with letters with symbols such as ~,^,´,` it may not work

I just created a new user acount as "frmariam" and used the same instance of cygwin from "João" only this time it worked! Guess next time I format my PC I'll change my name... Hope all dev's become aware of this though this may not be an often issue since many languages don't ure these chars... I'd like this to be solved though...

Thanks everyone!!! You can now lock/close this thread

P.S.:Come to think of it, it must be a toolchain issue because it didn't even run on linux! Hope someone warns the dev (don't know who is myself)

[cyanide]

the toolchain does work on linux...
theres a seperate guide for it though...
you cant just copy the cygwin tutorial guide and expect it to work

[frmariam]

Originally Posted by cyanide

the toolchain does work on linux...
theres a seperate guide for it though...
you cant just copy the cygwin tutorial guide and expect it to work

Thats not it. the toolchain or some other thing seems to have an issue with the username (cygwin/home/user where user is your username). Note that that username is the same as the windows one.

I used a live cd version of linux and the same username. I didn't use cygwin on linux of course (and all needed info is in the readme's) I'm not that dumb... I used an advanced notepad that was similar to the cygwin environment (Kate).

What I did in windows to solve this was create another user account with only common letters. I did read about 5/6 different tutorials and even had a friend to help. He could install it in his computer but not mine...

The username thing is my theory and it seems to be the real issue. I bet yours doen't have an "ã" in it. I've been facing probs with some apps such as IZArc that don't exist in my new windows user acount... It must be the name!

If someone could create a new windows user account (I'm using XP SP1) with a name such as "João" and try this I would appreciate it. If this is confirmed could someone warn devs about it?