Homebrew Looking to porting an app to 3DS. Where do I start?

[Pokem]

I'm currently trying to learn how to port an app to the 3DS. It's an open-source Android app called Onscripter https://github.com/bitmingw/ONScripter

Wii version
https://github.com/brijohn/onscripter-wii

Where should I start? What tools can I use? I want to see if I can use this as a learning experience as well as porting a convenient app over.

 

[Shadow#1]

Seems like a very niche app

 

[Deleted User]

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[Pokem]

First of all I would recommend that you learn to program, any simple programming language (javascript, python, ruby, dart), then go to a more complex one like c/c++ and after that you will understand the documentation of the tools of development for the 3ds.

Out of curiosity, what makes C complex compared to the 4 you listed?

 

[flzmx]

If you have 0 programming experience I would totally recommend learning another easier language first (JS is very similar to C++ in terms of syntax) and then going from there. Adding a step with compilation and having to deal with memory and all that gets wayyy too complex. Whoever did the port is very nice and seems to have made a separate folder containing all of the Wii related code. Your first step in porting would likely be just reimplementing that into something compatible for the 3DS..