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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.
Installing RGBDS (UNIX)
RGBDS requires yacc, flex, libpng and pkg-config to be installed.
On Mac OS X, install them with Homebrew. On other Unixes, use the built-in package manager. For example, on Debian or Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install byacc flex pkg-config libpng-dev
You can test if libpng and pkg-config are installed by running
pkg-config --cflags libpng: if the output is a path, then you're good, and if
it outputs an error then you need to install them via a package manager.
To build the programs on a UNIX or UNIX-like system, just run in your terminal:
make
Then to install the compiled programs and manual pages, run (with appropriate privileges):
make install
After installation, you can read the manuals with the man(1) command. E.g.,
man 1 rgbasm
Note: the variables described below can affect installation behavior when given on the make command line. For example, to install rgbds in your home directory instead of systemwide, run the following:
mkdir -p $HOME/{bin,man/man1,man/man7}
make install PREFIX=$HOME
PREFIX: Location where RGBDS will be installed. Defaults to /usr/local.
BINPREFIX: Location where the RGBDS programs will be installed. Defaults
to ${PREFIX}/bin.
MANPREFIX: Location where the RGBDS man pages will be installed. Defaults
to ${PREFIX}/man.
Q: Whether to quiet the build or not. To make the build more verbose, clear
this variable. Defaults to @.
STRIP: Whether to strip the installed binaries of debug symbols or not.
Defaults to -s.
BINMODE: Permissions of the installed binaries. Defaults to 555.
MANMODE: Permissions of the installed manpages. Defaults to 444.
Installing RGBDS (Windows)
Windows builds are available here: https://github.com/rednex/rgbds/releases
Copy the .exe files to C:\Windows\ or similar.