This project aims to make gba homebrew development lighter and more accessible to modern systems.
This is for all intents and purposes a project template and is not aimed towards a full blown system installation.
I have found this to be the best compromise for GBA development in my case.
sudo dnf install make git gcc arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs arm-none-eabi-gcc-cs arm-none-eabi-gcc-cs-c++ arm-none-eabi-newlib
sudo apt install build-essential git gcc-arm-none-eabi binutils-arm-none-eabi libnewlib-arm-none-eabi libnewlib-dev libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-dev libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/EssGeeEich/GBAsic.git
cd GBAsic
make -j
It is suggested to find an appropriate IDE for development.
For convenience, a VSCode workspace is provided.
To open VSCode in WSL, you must install vscode in WSL (command "code" must exist); Afterwards, you can open wsl_open_workspace.bat to open the VSCode workspace in the default WSL distribution.
You can adapt this batch file to any other WSL distribution.
malloc and new calls allocate memory in EWRAM between address 0x02000000 and 0x0203FFFF (256 KB)
The stack uses memory in IWRAM between address 0x03000000 and 0x03007FFF (32 KB)
ROM data is accessible via memory between address 0x08000000 and 0x47FFFFFF (32 MB)
libgba is included and preconfigured. Some standard libraries are available and working.
C++ features need more testing (Classes). Exceptions are disabled.