How can i build WAD Manager?

[SaulFabre]

Well then, lets hope he can help us

Post automatically merged: Dec 19, 2022

Update: i put the missing "powerpc-eabi-gcc" and now is doing this:
View attachment 343466
I searched on google and it says it this error is given when i have a compiler that does not match the original compiler version and i need to edit the "project properties"
What should i do?

Post automatically merged: Dec 19, 2022

Another update:
Now it gives me this error:
"powerpc-eabi-gcc.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-mrvl'"
I really am at a loss, everything changes if i do nothing

what version of devkitPPC are you using?

 

[Michy234]

what version of devkitPPC are you using?

Im using the latest version from the devkitPro wiki, should i use an older one?

 

[SaulFabre]

Im using the latest version from the devkitPro wiki, should i use an older one?

WAD Manager is a very old tool, and no one has the intention of fixing through all the code for support newest devkitPPC/libOGC versions, so you MUST use older versions to compile it.

Maybe try using devkitPPC r23-r26 and libOGC 1.8.15-1 or older?

 

[Michy234]

WAD Manager is a very old tool, and no one has the intention of fixing through all the code for support newest devkitPPC/libOGC versions, so you MUST use older versions to compile it.

Maybe try using devkitPPC r23-r26 and libOGC 1.8.15-1 or older?

Hello there, i downloaded devkitPPC r24 nd libOGC 1.8.15-1, i tried to build it with theese but im stuck in this right now:

I tried debugging with "make -d" and it says that it searches for libraries in "\devkitPPC/libogc/lib/wii", at least i think, even when i put libogc there it still doesn't work. Here is the "make -d" log: https://controlc.com/53de9567
Its really long but the part where it gives me this error is at the end of the log. Added it if there is something else that stops it too. Thanks for the help so far

 

[godreborn]

It's still erroring with lz, and I think it's looking for libfat.

 

[Michy234]

It's still erroring with lz, and I think it's looking for libfat.

Yes i know that, but now when im using the old devkitPPC where should i put the libraries?

 

[godreborn]

Yes i know that, but now when im using the old devkitPPC where should i put the libraries?

I'm not sure. it doesn't appear to look in the devkitpro folder. it also seems to ignore environmental variables.

 

[SylverReZ]

Have you placed the paths to devkitPro in your environment variables?

 

[Wiimpathy]

- Download devkitPPC r19 : http://wii.leseratte10.de/devkitPro/devkitPPC/r19 (2009)/
- Download the libs from WiiXplorer : https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wiixplorer/libogc-devkitR19_18-02-2010.zip?viasf=1
- Modify Makefile like this:

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Clear the implicit built in rules
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.SUFFIXES:
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ifeq ($(strip $(DEVKITPPC)),)
$(error "Please set DEVKITPPC in your environment. export DEVKITPPC=<path to>devkitPPC")
endif

include $(DEVKITPPC)/wii_rules

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# TARGET is the name of the output
# BUILD is the directory where object files & intermediate files will be placed
# SOURCES is a list of directories containing source code
# INCLUDES is a list of directories containing extra header files
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TARGET        :=    $(notdir $(CURDIR))
BUILD        :=    build
SOURCES        :=    source source/libpng source/libpng/pngu
DATA        :=    data
INCLUDES    :=

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# options for code generation
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CFLAGS    = -g -O2 -Wall $(MACHDEP) $(INCLUDE)
CXXFLAGS    =    $(CFLAGS)

LDFLAGS    =    -g $(MACHDEP) -Wl,-Map,$(notdir $@).map

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# any extra libraries we wish to link with the project
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIBS    :=    -lasnd -lvorbisidec -lpng -lfat -lwiiuse -lbte -logc -lm -lz

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# list of directories containing libraries, this must be the top level containing
# include and lib
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIRS    :=    $(CURDIR) $(PORTLIBS)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# no real need to edit anything past this point unless you need to add additional
# rules for different file extensions
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ifneq ($(BUILD),$(notdir $(CURDIR)))
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

export OUTPUT    :=    $(CURDIR)/$(TARGET)

export VPATH    :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(CURDIR)/$(dir)) \
                    $(foreach dir,$(DATA),$(CURDIR)/$(dir))

export DEPSDIR    :=    $(CURDIR)/$(BUILD)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# automatically build a list of object files for our project
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CFILES        :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.c)))
CPPFILES    :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.cpp)))
sFILES        :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.s)))
SFILES        :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.S)))
BINFILES    :=    $(foreach dir,$(DATA),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.*)))

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# use CXX for linking C++ projects, CC for standard C
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ifeq ($(strip $(CPPFILES)),)
    export LD    :=    $(CC)
else
    export LD    :=    $(CXX)
endif

export OFILES_BIN    :=    $(addsuffix .o,$(BINFILES))
export OFILES_SOURCES := $(CPPFILES:.cpp=.o) $(CFILES:.c=.o) $(sFILES:.s=.o) $(SFILES:.S=.o)
export OFILES := $(OFILES_BIN) $(OFILES_SOURCES)

export HFILES := $(addsuffix .h,$(subst .,_,$(BINFILES)))

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# build a list of include paths
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
export INCLUDE    :=    $(foreach dir,$(INCLUDES), -iquote $(CURDIR)/$(dir)) \
                    $(foreach dir,$(LIBDIRS),-I$(dir)/include) \
                    -I$(CURDIR)/$(BUILD) \
                    -I$(LIBOGC_INC)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# build a list of library paths
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
export LIBPATHS    := -L$(LIBOGC_LIB) $(foreach dir,$(LIBDIRS),-L$(dir)/lib)

export OUTPUT    :=    $(CURDIR)/$(TARGET)
.PHONY: $(BUILD) clean

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$(BUILD):
    @[ -d $@ ] || mkdir -p $@
    @$(MAKE) --no-print-directory -C $(BUILD) -f $(CURDIR)/Makefile

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
clean:
    @echo clean ...
    @rm -fr $(BUILD) $(OUTPUT).elf $(OUTPUT).dol

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
run:
    wiiload $(TARGET).dol


#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
else

DEPENDS    :=    $(OFILES:.o=.d)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# main targets
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$(OUTPUT).dol: $(OUTPUT).elf
$(OUTPUT).elf: $(OFILES)

$(OFILES_SOURCES) : $(HFILES)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This rule links in binary data with the .jpg extension
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%.jpg.o    %_jpg.h :    %.jpg
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    @echo $(notdir $<)
    $(bin2o)

-include $(DEPENDS)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
endif
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[godreborn]

he certainly has the right name ^^, empathy, or should I say @Wiimpathy ?

 

[Wiimpathy]

he certainly has the right name ^^, empathy, or should I say @Wiimpathy ?

That's precisely the idea behind my stupid nickname. Not really a good point in this world. Same for being nice with others. And nowadays helping others for free is almost suspicious.

 

[Michy234]

- Download devkitPPC r19 : http://wii.leseratte10.de/devkitPro/devkitPPC/r19 (2009)/
- Download the libs from WiiXplorer : https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wiixplorer/libogc-devkitR19_18-02-2010.zip?viasf=1
- Modify Makefile like this:

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Clear the implicit built in rules
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.SUFFIXES:
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ifeq ($(strip $(DEVKITPPC)),)
$(error "Please set DEVKITPPC in your environment. export DEVKITPPC=<path to>devkitPPC")
endif

include $(DEVKITPPC)/wii_rules

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# TARGET is the name of the output
# BUILD is the directory where object files & intermediate files will be placed
# SOURCES is a list of directories containing source code
# INCLUDES is a list of directories containing extra header files
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TARGET        :=    $(notdir $(CURDIR))
BUILD        :=    build
SOURCES        :=    source source/libpng source/libpng/pngu
DATA        :=    data
INCLUDES    :=

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# options for code generation
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CFLAGS    = -g -O2 -Wall $(MACHDEP) $(INCLUDE)
CXXFLAGS    =    $(CFLAGS)

LDFLAGS    =    -g $(MACHDEP) -Wl,-Map,$(notdir $@).map

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# any extra libraries we wish to link with the project
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIBS    :=    -lasnd -lvorbisidec -lpng -lfat -lwiiuse -lbte -logc -lm -lz

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# list of directories containing libraries, this must be the top level containing
# include and lib
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIBDIRS    :=    $(CURDIR) $(PORTLIBS)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# no real need to edit anything past this point unless you need to add additional
# rules for different file extensions
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ifneq ($(BUILD),$(notdir $(CURDIR)))
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

export OUTPUT    :=    $(CURDIR)/$(TARGET)

export VPATH    :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(CURDIR)/$(dir)) \
                    $(foreach dir,$(DATA),$(CURDIR)/$(dir))

export DEPSDIR    :=    $(CURDIR)/$(BUILD)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# automatically build a list of object files for our project
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CFILES        :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.c)))
CPPFILES    :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.cpp)))
sFILES        :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.s)))
SFILES        :=    $(foreach dir,$(SOURCES),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.S)))
BINFILES    :=    $(foreach dir,$(DATA),$(notdir $(wildcard $(dir)/*.*)))

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# use CXX for linking C++ projects, CC for standard C
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ifeq ($(strip $(CPPFILES)),)
    export LD    :=    $(CC)
else
    export LD    :=    $(CXX)
endif

export OFILES_BIN    :=    $(addsuffix .o,$(BINFILES))
export OFILES_SOURCES := $(CPPFILES:.cpp=.o) $(CFILES:.c=.o) $(sFILES:.s=.o) $(SFILES:.S=.o)
export OFILES := $(OFILES_BIN) $(OFILES_SOURCES)

export HFILES := $(addsuffix .h,$(subst .,_,$(BINFILES)))

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# build a list of include paths
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
export INCLUDE    :=    $(foreach dir,$(INCLUDES), -iquote $(CURDIR)/$(dir)) \
                    $(foreach dir,$(LIBDIRS),-I$(dir)/include) \
                    -I$(CURDIR)/$(BUILD) \
                    -I$(LIBOGC_INC)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# build a list of library paths
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
export LIBPATHS    := -L$(LIBOGC_LIB) $(foreach dir,$(LIBDIRS),-L$(dir)/lib)

export OUTPUT    :=    $(CURDIR)/$(TARGET)
.PHONY: $(BUILD) clean

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$(BUILD):
    @[ -d $@ ] || mkdir -p $@
    @$(MAKE) --no-print-directory -C $(BUILD) -f $(CURDIR)/Makefile

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
clean:
    @echo clean ...
    @rm -fr $(BUILD) $(OUTPUT).elf $(OUTPUT).dol

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
run:
    wiiload $(TARGET).dol


#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
else

DEPENDS    :=    $(OFILES:.o=.d)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# main targets
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$(OUTPUT).dol: $(OUTPUT).elf
$(OUTPUT).elf: $(OFILES)

$(OFILES_SOURCES) : $(HFILES)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This rule links in binary data with the .jpg extension
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%.jpg.o    %_jpg.h :    %.jpg
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    @echo $(notdir $<)
    $(bin2o)

-include $(DEPENDS)

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
endif
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, hello there, thanks for the modified Makefile and for the download links, i downloaded the older devkitPro and put the libraries in it, modified my environment variables to point to the old devkitPro, when i try to make with this modified Makefile it says this:
(with make)
Makefile:100: *** missing separator. Stop.
(with mingw32-make)
Makefile:10: C:\Users\michywii\Downloads\forse\devkitPPC/wii_rules: No such file or directory
Makefile:100: *** missing separator. Stop.

What should i do?

Post automatically merged: Dec 21, 2022

Well, hello there, thanks for the modified Makefile and for the download links, i downloaded the older devkitPro and put the libraries in it, modified my environment variables to point to the old devkitPro, when i try to make with this modified Makefile it says this:
(with make)
Makefile:100: *** missing separator. Stop.
(with mingw32-make)
Makefile:10: C:\Users\michywii\Downloads\forse\devkitPPC/wii_rules: No such file or directory
Makefile:100: *** missing separator. Stop.

What should i do?

Nevermind, just fixed it, now though it says this:
powerpc-eabi-gcc.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-mrvl'
make[1]: *** [C:\Users\michywii\Downloads\forse\devkitPPC/base_rules:40: fat.o] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:101: build] Error 2

 

[Wiimpathy]

Gbatemp has formatted the file badly. Please try with this attached file.

 

[Michy234]

Gbatemp has formatted the file badly. Please try with this attached file.

Tried it but it still gives me the "unrecognized command line option '-mrvl'" error.

Post automatically merged: Dec 21, 2022

Tried it but it still gives me the "unrecognized command line option '-mrvl'" error.

I think there is something wrong with my like libexec's since it pulls out the "powerpc-eabi-gcc" from the most recente devkitPpc. What should i do?

Post automatically merged: Dec 21, 2022

Update:

Tried it but it still gives me the "unrecognized command line option '-mrvl'" error.

Post automatically merged: Dec 21, 2022

I think there is something wrong with my like libexec's since it pulls out the "powerpc-eabi-gcc" from the most recente devkitPpc. What should i do?

Update: my "powerpc-eabi-gcc" is from a PowerPC library i downloaded some time ago, the first result if you search for "powerpc-eabi-gcc", locted in C:\SysGCC\powerpc-eabi\bin

Post automatically merged: Dec 21, 2022

Gbatemp has formatted the file badly. Please try with this attached file.

Tried it to build it again and got till a point, here is the log of "make":

C:\Users\michywii\Downloads\forse\wad-manager-master>make
fat.c
In file included from c:\sysgcc\powerpc-eabi\powerpc-eabi\sys-include\dirent.h:6:0,
                 from c:\sysgcc\powerpc-eabi\powerpc-eabi\sys-include\sys\dir.h:6,
                 from C:/Users/michywii/Downloads/forse/wad-manager-master/source/fat.h:6,
                 from C:/Users/michywii/Downloads/forse/wad-manager-master/source/fat.c:6:
c:\sysgcc\powerpc-eabi\powerpc-eabi\sys-include\sys\dirent.h:10:2: error: #error "<dirent.h> not supported"
 #error "<dirent.h> not supported"
  ^
In file included from C:/Users/michywii/Downloads/forse/wad-manager-master/source/fat.c:6:0:
C:/Users/michywii/Downloads/forse/wad-manager-master/source/fat.h:31:14: error: field 'filestat' has incomplete type
  struct stat filestat;
              ^
C:/Users/michywii/Downloads/forse/wad-manager-master/source/fat.c: In function 'Fat_Mount':
C:/Users/michywii/Downloads/forse/wad-manager-master/source/fat.c:20:2: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fatMountSimple' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  ret = fatMountSimple(dev->mount, dev->interface);
  ^
C:/Users/michywii/Downloads/forse/wad-manager-master/source/fat.c: In function 'Fat_Unmount':
C:/Users/michywii/Downloads/forse/wad-manager-master/source/fat.c:34:2: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fatUnmount' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  fatUnmount(dev->mount);
  ^
make[1]: *** [C:\Users\michywii\Downloads\forse\devkitPPC/base_rules:40: fat.o] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:101: build] Error 2

 

[Wiimpathy]

Be sure to replace your DevkitPPC, libogc and portlibs folders. Well, rename them first if you want a copy.
I don't know windows default install path, I rarely use this os.

Try with something simpler first to check you've installed it correctly. Compile the corresponding Wii example template : http://wii.leseratte10.de/devkitPro/wii-examples/
It should be one of the 2009 archives.

 

[Michy234]

Be sure to replace your DevkitPPC, libogc and portlibs folders. Well, rename them first if you want a copy.
I don't know windows default install path, I rarely use this os.

The default devkitPpc install directory is "C:\devkitPro\" in Windows. (for the latest version)
What should i replace them with?

 

[Wiimpathy]

You should have these folders inside C:\devkitPro :
devkitPPC
libogc
portlibs

The easier temporary solution is to rename devkitPro to devkitPro_original for example.

Then create a brand new devkitPro folder. Grab the old versions from this post :
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-can-i-build-wad-manager.623439/post-10029674
Take the Windows archive:
devkitPPC_r19-win32.exe

Extract those archives in your new C:\devkitPro

 

[Michy234]

You should have these folders inside C:\devkitPro :
devkitPPC
libogc
portlibs

The easier temporary solution is to rename devkitPro to devkitPro_original for example.

Then create a brand new devkitPro folder. Grab the old versions from this post :
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-can-i-build-wad-manager.623439/post-10029674
Take the Windows archive:
devkitPPC_r19-win32.exe

Extract those archives in your new C:\devkitPro

Okok, i have just done this, since i built everything off a Windows VM (im on Linux) i decided to reinstall Windows on it because the VM was messy full of stuff and i have like 10 different versions of devkitPro so i formatted and reinstalled Windows and now im here.
I installed mingw but when i try to build the examplewith "mingw32-make" it just hangs, even with "-d". What should i do?

Post automatically merged: Dec 21, 2022

Okok, i have just done this, since i built everything off a Windows VM (im on Linux) i decided to reinstall Windows on it because the VM was messy full of stuff and i have like 10 different versions of devkitPro so i formatted and reinstalled Windows and now im here.
I installed mingw but when i try to build the examplewith "mingw32-make" it just hangs, even with "-d". What should i do?

Update, i tried to install make from Chocolatey but still nothing. Help!

 

[Wiimpathy]

Wait what? You're on Linux? Then why don't you try to compile in Linux? You seem to over complicate things. I can't really help with windows.
Just install with pacman and then replace the folders in /opt/devkitpro

In case you missed it :
https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started

 

[Michy234]

Okok, i have just done this, since i built everything off a Windows VM (im on Linux) i decided to reinstall Windows on it because the VM was messy full of stuff and i have like 10 different versions of devkitPro so i formatted and reinstalled Windows and now im here.
I installed mingw but when i try to build the examplewith "mingw32-make" it just hangs, even with "-d". What should i do?

Post automatically merged: Dec 21, 2022

Update, i tried to install make from Chocolatey but still nothing. Help!

Other update, console says ""Please set DEVKITPPC in your environment. export DEVKITPPC=<path to>devkitPPC". Stop." even when i put devkitPpc in my environment.

Post automatically merged: Dec 21, 2022

Wait what? You're on Linux? Then why don't you try to compile in Linux? You seem to over complicate things. I can't really help with windows.
Just install with pacman and then replace the folders in /opt/devkitpro

I tried building on Linux but i found it harder, i will try on linux right now.