Installing ps2dev for Fedora

[Tonic]

Well I used Fedora 8 on this but will work about the same for any other. This is for people that are having a problem getting ps2toolchain to compile & ps2sdk.

Run the following command as root in the terminal

yum install kernel-devel

You should have updated the kernel with the regular updates but just in case also run this

yum install kernel-headers

Afterwards lets install the development tools just in case you haven't already.

yum groupinstall "development-tools"
yum install mpfr-devel
yum install compat-gcc*
yum install subversion

Now lets install wget if you haven't already.

yum install wget

Time to edit the login

gedit /home/???/.bashrc

replace ??? with your username for your directory. Then add the following lines at the end

 export PS2DEV=/usr/local/ps2dev
 export PATH=$PATH:$PS2DEV/bin
 export PATH=$PATH:$PS2DEV/ee/bin
 export PATH=$PATH:$PS2DEV/iop/bin
 export PATH=$PATH:$PS2DEV/dvp/bin
 export PS2SDK=$PS2DEV/ps2sdk
 export PATH=$PATH:$PS2SDK/bin

Restart the terminal and enter the following command

 cd /usr/local

Login back as root and type the following commands in the terminal

svn checkout svn://ps2dev.org/ps2/trunk/ps2toolchain
cd ps2toolchain

Now execute the following commands

export CC=gcc34
./toolchain.sh

Process will take awhile but once the process is fully done update the ps2sdk fully with the following command.

svn checkout http://svn.ps2dev.org/trunk/ps2sdk && cd ps2sdk
make
make install

Afterwards you should be all setup with ps2toolchain & ps2sdk. I've done this twice and so far no problems compiling sources. I myself am new at this but this will get you started, hope it helps beginners with ps2dev & linux.

[misfire]

Nice. Always good to see people using Linux.

I wrote a similar tutorial for Ubuntu:
http://gshi.org/vb/showthread.php?t=3158

Just a tip: you should not check out from SVN to /usr/local/. Use your home folder (~) for this.

[Tonic]

Well either way it works out. And yeah Linux is the ideal operating system for programming and compiling. Windows can be a pain in the rear end with this stuff and using a pre-compiled SDK isn't that much safe because sometimes it can cause build issues and users will never notice it and keep wondering why it screws it.. I was successful with using that winsg or whatever for the PSP but thats because they had a pretty good pre-compiled SDK.

[misfire]

Exactly. On Linux, all the parts fit together very well and you can build the toolchain almost out of the box.

Cygwin and MinGW on Windows just give you a (bitter) foretaste of what you can do on a real Linux distribution.