Setting up PSP Toolchain Envirorment (when servers are down) Tutorial

[SG57]

A majority of people trying to install the toolchain recently, have been recieving an error where you either can't log in as anonymous, or just can't connect at all. A bypass has been posted by me September 27, 2006, 10:08:23 PM, but at psp-programming.com, so i thought it was time for it to come over here where amajority of people turn to for help (that dont know about psp-programming.com).

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Originally Posted by My post at PSP-Programming.com

Well, recent problems of my own raised a call for action... So I took one after waiting a week for the servers to come back...

This is incomplete as I'm writing this since I haven't taken photos yet, but I will tomorrow.

**Please get past the Cygwin setup to the point where you can't install the toolchain to continue**



Retrieving files
First off, get your toolchain...

svn co svn://svn.ps2dev.org/psp/trunk/psptoolchain

When trying to run the toolchain script manually, you usually get some type of connection problem resulting in an un-installable PSP toolchain... A way around this is to retrieve the files the toolchain tries to download in the first place. Here they are in order of download from the toolchain:


Save these exact files to the 'psptoolchain' folder where the toolchain script will extract it for you.


Binutils: Retrieve from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/binutils/b...-2.16.1.tar.gz

GCC: Retrieve from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/gcc-4....-4.0.2.tar.bz2

Newlib: Retrieve from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/newlib/...-1.14.0.tar.gz

Once all those files are saved into the psptoolchain folder, you can now start your toolchain installation. But, before I started mine, i took a gander at the toolchain script... I found the path to the PSPSDK was off by one character. Im not sure whether this will cause an error while building, but I changed mine from (line 24):

PSPSDK_SVN="svn://svn.pspdev.org/psp/trunk/pspsdk"

to

PSPSDK_SVN="svn://svn.ps2dev.org/psp/trunk/pspsdk"

And my toolchain installed just fine. I havent the experience iwthout the change, but if you are wanting to find out, don't touch that line and see what happens. But if you jsut want to get your toolchain setup, I recommend changing it since I have first hand experience it works.

Now you're ready to start your toolchain installation. Now follow anyother tutorial for installting the toolchain ( cd psptoolchain ; ./toolchain.sh ) and it should 'fake' download the newest patches for hte libraries you downloaded, but the toolchain you downloaded from the start contains the newest patches, saving us 3 more downloads

And there you go... It now should extract all the files from the TAR'd libraries you downloaded, than begin the installation. Note, after the extraction process, it will than check for errors on your Cygwin setup... (gmake, autoconf, etc.)

Tell me if anything should be added and whatnot...

[Atin]

Thanks, and how long should I expect the install to take? I've seen places saying anywhere from 3 hours to 24 hours.

[SG57]

It all depends on your computers hardware. Mine took around 3-4 hours, its a Dell Dimension 1000-something... Ordinarily, these files above would download all by themselves once the toolchain is ran, so if you have a crappy internet connection itd take a long time. This method is the same, but you download using an internet browser, so a download accelerator or something maybe used to increase soeed i guess.

Also, this method may be used if you dont have an internet connection at your house, just go to a hot spot, download these files, than go on home and install. Where using hte other method, you;d have to wait at the hot spot for the installation to be done (i thinl)

[-TheSilenceOfNoOne-]

What SVN client would you recommend? Subversion is really acting up right now.

[DeMoN X]

Can't get this working at all, I had no problems when I first used this when the server was fine. But since using the SVN i've had nothing but problems.
I'll try it this way, But I still don't think it will work. I'll update this post if it works or not.

[Glynnder]

its svn checkout in cygwin methinks


edit: svn co works too

[DeMoN X]

Seems like I'm having problems with aclocal, I'm going to try renaming aclocal-1.9 to aclocal. I'll update the post once I get round to running the script again.