Kaiser
February 11th, 2011, 17:45
I'm posting this here as I think the forums are in desperate need for some new guides and this is not only a thorough guide but a fairly recent one and among the best I could find floating around the web. It is written by famous Cross-platform homebrew coder and DCEmu-er ZX-81 (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/forums/168-ZX-81-s-Release-and-Discussion-Forum). This is a mirror from the original location on his main blog (http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/categories/52-SDK)
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtual_box.png
Hi All,
For windows users who want to develop on their windows PC, little homebrew for the PSP, without spending hours or days trying to install cygwin and compile the toolchain, this package is for you !!
You have first to install VirtualBox that is freely available : http://www.virtualbox.org/
The version i use is there :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/public/psp/virtualbox/
You should then download rar files present here :
http://dl.free.fr/mrMoqDD4I
http://dl.free.fr/mStRpxBYD
http://dl.free.fr/mrJkbZKnv
http://dl.free.fr/mfkeCpfa6
http://dl.free.fr/mm9sSzX4Q
http://dl.free.fr/m38NTWsoV
http://dl.free.fr/mh3y5OPQY
http://dl.free.fr/mTQ87SHcm
http://dl.free.fr/ml7K482D9
You have to unrar the rar archive in disk1.vdi (you need at least 4Gb of free space on your hard disk)
Then create a new virtual host, Linux 2.6 with 256 Mb of memory, and use the disk1.vdi as a disk image !
This disk image contains a full install of xubuntu 7.4, where the PSP SDK has been already compiled, and several other software added (such as the famous IDE Kdevelop, gcc, SDL etc ...).
After virtually booting Xubuntu, the login name is psp, and the password is psp.
I've written a small PSP project (hello world) for Kdevelop, ready to use.
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtualbox-pspdev-1.jpg
Then you must create a shared folder called "shared" (to share files between windows and your virtual Ubuntu host) as follows :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtualbox-pspdev-2.jpg
Then you can boot xubuntu http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/templates/default/img/emoticons/tongue.png :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtualbox-pspdev-3.jpg
And login using psp as login and password :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtualbox-pspdev-4.jpg
If you want to install xubuntu by your own, then you will just have to install the pre-compiled version of the PSP SDK (with gcc-431) :
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013010/pspdev-gcc431.tar.bz2
or http://dl.free.fr/mg2ZFLzpd
Hope that helps,
Zx
** UPDATE: 2010/4/24 **
a new xubuntu 8.4 version + eclipse IDE; working with latest VirtualBox version
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013308/xubuntu-8.4-devel.7z.001
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013334/xubuntu-8.4-devel.7z.002
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013545/xubuntu-8.4-devel.7z.003
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013618/xubuntu-8.4-devel.7z.004
Ubuntu account :
login: devel
password: devel
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtual_box.png
Hi All,
For windows users who want to develop on their windows PC, little homebrew for the PSP, without spending hours or days trying to install cygwin and compile the toolchain, this package is for you !!
You have first to install VirtualBox that is freely available : http://www.virtualbox.org/
The version i use is there :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/public/psp/virtualbox/
You should then download rar files present here :
http://dl.free.fr/mrMoqDD4I
http://dl.free.fr/mStRpxBYD
http://dl.free.fr/mrJkbZKnv
http://dl.free.fr/mfkeCpfa6
http://dl.free.fr/mm9sSzX4Q
http://dl.free.fr/m38NTWsoV
http://dl.free.fr/mh3y5OPQY
http://dl.free.fr/mTQ87SHcm
http://dl.free.fr/ml7K482D9
You have to unrar the rar archive in disk1.vdi (you need at least 4Gb of free space on your hard disk)
Then create a new virtual host, Linux 2.6 with 256 Mb of memory, and use the disk1.vdi as a disk image !
This disk image contains a full install of xubuntu 7.4, where the PSP SDK has been already compiled, and several other software added (such as the famous IDE Kdevelop, gcc, SDL etc ...).
After virtually booting Xubuntu, the login name is psp, and the password is psp.
I've written a small PSP project (hello world) for Kdevelop, ready to use.
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtualbox-pspdev-1.jpg
Then you must create a shared folder called "shared" (to share files between windows and your virtual Ubuntu host) as follows :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtualbox-pspdev-2.jpg
Then you can boot xubuntu http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/templates/default/img/emoticons/tongue.png :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtualbox-pspdev-3.jpg
And login using psp as login and password :
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/images/virtualbox-pspdev-4.jpg
If you want to install xubuntu by your own, then you will just have to install the pre-compiled version of the PSP SDK (with gcc-431) :
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013010/pspdev-gcc431.tar.bz2
or http://dl.free.fr/mg2ZFLzpd
Hope that helps,
Zx
** UPDATE: 2010/4/24 **
a new xubuntu 8.4 version + eclipse IDE; working with latest VirtualBox version
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013308/xubuntu-8.4-devel.7z.001
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013334/xubuntu-8.4-devel.7z.002
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013545/xubuntu-8.4-devel.7z.003
http://www.easy-share.com/1910013618/xubuntu-8.4-devel.7z.004
Ubuntu account :
login: devel
password: devel