Eldred Habert
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We can, so let's not ask if we should! More realistically, we can right now so it's nice to mark that we do, but this is subject to be re-evaluated if any later changes conflicts with this. Note also that this only affects the binaries we distribute with our releases! It may very well be possible to compile RGBDS on even older versions of Mac OS X if you have the appropriate compiler setup; we're just not testing it nor offering such binaries ourselves, but third-party packagers are welcome to do so. (Looking at you, TigerBrew! ;)
RGBDS
RGBDS (Rednex Game Boy Development System) is a free assembler/linker package for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. It consists of:
- RGBASM (assembler)
- RGBLINK (linker)
- RGBFIX (checksum/header fixer)
- RGBGFX (PNG-to-Game Boy graphics converter)
This is a fork of the original RGBDS which aims to make the programs more like other UNIX tools.
This toolchain is maintained on GitHub.
The documentation of this toolchain can be viewed online, including its basic usage and development history. It is generated from the man pages found in this repository. The source code of the website itself is on GitHub as well under the repository rgbds-www.
If you want to contribute or maintain RGBDS, please read our contribution guide.
If you have questions regarding the code, its organization, etc. you can find the maintainers
on the GBDev community channels or via mail at rgbds at gbdev dot io.
Installing RGBDS
The installation procedure is available
online for various platforms. Building from source
is possible using make or cmake; follow the link for more detailed instructions.
make
sudo make install
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build
cmake --install build
Two parameters available when building are a prefix (e.g. to put the executables in a directory) and a suffix (e.g. to append the version number or commit ID).
make
sudo make install PREFIX=install_dir/ SUFFIX=-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DSUFFIX=-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
cmake --build build
cmake --install build --prefix install_dir
(If you set a SUFFIX, it should include the .exe extension on Windows.)