Changing the devkitPro path from absolute to environment defined

[john-peterson]

Changing the devkitPro path from absolute to environment defined

Problem

The user sometimes want to place devkitPro in another path than "/c/devkitpro", f.e. "/c/file/source/lib/devkitpro", because

• it's better organisation because other lib files are in that path

Solution

Changing "C:\devkitPro" to "$(DEVKITPRO_)" in the .vcxproj files because

• that allow VS to locate declarations when devkitPro isn't in "C:\devkitPro"

MSYS path conversion

The environment variable is "DEVKITPRO_" instead of "DEVKITPRO" because

• devkitPro is designed to build from MSYS where a Windows style path is unhandled as in the example in this topic
• i.o.w. the MSYS automatic path conversion is inadequate for devkitPro make

# start devkitPro MSYS environment
call c:\file\source\lib\devkitpro\msys\msys.bat -mintty MSYS

# environment information
uname -a; echo $MSYSTEM
MSYS_NT-6.1 PC 1.0.17(0.48/3/2) 2011-04-24 23:39 i686 Msys
MSYS

# set Windows style devkitPro path
export DEVKITPRO=c:\\file\\source\\lib\\devkitpro
export DEVKITPPC=$DEVKITPRO\\devkitppc

# build WPAD
cd /c/file/source/dolphin/repo/Source/TestSuite/WPAD
make -r
      0 [main] make 22152 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to make.exe.stackdump

# set Unix style devkitPro path
export DEVKITPRO_=$DEVKITPRO
export DEVKITPPC_=$DEVKITPPC
export DEVKITPRO=`cygpath DEVKITPRO_`
export DEVKITPPC=`cygpath DEVKITPPC_`
# status
echo $DEVKITPRO
/c/file/source/lib/devkitpro

# build WPAD
make -r
dolphintest_wpad.cpp
linking ... WPAD.elf
output ... WPAD.dol

[john-peterson]

Adding visual stick position to pad test

Message

This message is at #31 (comment)

Commit

The commit is in this branch with the same title as this post

Commit message

because

• it's useful for changing the stick radius

Problem

A visual compared to text stick position is useful for changing the stick position because

• it's easier to determine when the stick is at the active range

Build

The .elf files are in this folder because

• that allow testing this commit without a devkitPro environment

[john-peterson]

Changing ARAM test header file path

Commit

And the commits

• Changing the SD card reader object
• Changing the GU vector struct name

Commit message

Changing ARAM test header file path

because

• it's useful for building the program

Problem

The devkitPro tests don't build because of changes in devkitPro

This is a problem because

• the tests are important to analyse emulation