If you successfully installed Linux you can start setting up programming environment. Download these files:
1.devkitARM_r26-i686-linux.tar.bz2
2.gba-examples-20090222.tar.bz2
3.libgba-20090222.tar.bz2
If you are using Firefox, the default download folder is in /home/<user>/Desktop e.g. /home/special/Desktop. Now unpack them to folder /devkitpro. And becouse that folder don’t exist, create it with:
$ cd /
$ sudo mkdir devkitpro
Every time you use sudo command you have to also type your user password, the same used for login into the system. Command sudo gives you administrative privileges. Now go into /devkitpro and create folders libgba and examples. In terminal go to libgba folder and execute
$ tar -jxvf <filename>
eg. tar – jxvf ~/Desktop/libgba-20090222.tar.bz2
This will unpack all files into current folder. ~/ means home directory. Next do the same with gba-examples-20090222.tar.bz2 and devkitARM_r26-i686-linux.tar.bz2. Last one can be unpack direct to devkitpro folder.
Setting up system variables
$ vi ~/.bashrc
go to end of file
press key “a”
type this:
export DEVKITPRO=/devkitpro
export DEVKITARM=$DEVKITPRO/devkitARM
press Esc
type “ZZ” to save and press Enter
Compiling template
Go to /devkitpro/examples/template and type $ make
You will see these lines:
built … template_mb.gba
ROM fixed!
Now you have template_mb.gba file that can be run in emulator or GBA console.
