Homebrew Inquiry About Homebrew Development

[Deleted User]

I recently started learning how to make Homebrew for the Xbox 360 and would like to tie in my learnings with the 3ds scene by making a tool to connect my 3ds to my console. However I had a question in regards to the development of this application.

The xbox uses C# which is different from the 3ds so my question is. How would I be able to include the correct dependency in my 3ds application?

i.e. the 360 would use the following DLLs

using JRPC_Client
using xDevkit

While I see the 3ds is setup completely differently with an "h" file.

Would someone be willing to shed some light on this, or point me in the right direction?

 

[daxtsu]

An .h file is a header file for C/C++. You can't program homebrew on the 3DS in C#. You can, however use Lua and/or C/C++.

 

[Deleted User]

An .h file is a header file for C/C++. You can't program homebrew on the 3DS in C#. You can, however use Lua and/or C/C++.

That is what Im trying to figure out. Im trying to use C++ currently. However is it possible to call the required dependencies with this, if they are from a dll?

All the DLL does is point to the plugin that is on the console that i am trying to control

 

[Joom]

You can use Obj-C, which you possibly may be familiar with. Though I'm wondering about the usefulness of connecting a 3DS to a 360. And no, you wouldn't be able to call a DLL on a 3DS since that's a Windows specific format (dynamically linked library). The 3DS is a lot more similar to UNIX.

 

[Deleted User]

You can use Obj-C, which you possibly may be familiar with. Though I'm wondering about the usefulness of connecting a 3DS to 360.

Convenience really. If you have a modified console there are some things you can do that involve RTE

if I use obj-c for this application I should be able to call that dll and build without issue?

 

[TheCruel]

You need static linking, dynamic linking won't work, especially linking with windows dlls. You will need to recompile those libraries into static archives using a cross-compiler (presumably devkitARM).

 

[Joom]

Convenience really. If you have a modified console there are some things you can do that involve RTE

if I use obj-c for this application I should be able to call that dll and build without issue?

No. Sorry, edited my post before you replied. The XBOX family uses a modified version of Windows (OG uses WinXP, and 360 and XBONE use WIN 8/10), much like the iPhone uses a heavily modified version of Darwin and OS X.

 

[daxtsu]

Shame nobody's made patches for the ro module for CFW yet. It'd be cool to load dynamic libraries (CROs) with it.

 

[Deleted User]

You need static linking, dynamic linking won't work, especially linking with windows dlls. You will need to recompile those libraries into static archives using a cross-compiler (presumably devkitARM).

No. Sorry, edited my post before you replied. The XBOX family uses a modified version of Windows, much like the iPhone using a heavily modified version of Darwin and OS X.

Thank you. Ill look into find the source of this DLL to see if I can get a header out of it

I appreciate the help. I thought it would be cool to send some cool xNotifies to my console from the other side of the room lol

Spoiler: xNotify in question

 

[Joom]

Thank you. Ill look into find the source of this DLL to see if I can get a header out of it

I appreciate the help. I thought it would be cool to send some cool xNotifies to my console from the other side of the room lol

Spoiler: xNotify in question

You can do something similar using the Notification API, but I forget what the actual call is. Refer to 3dbrew.org for more information.