vitasdk-macOS

PlayStation Vita development under macOS Sierra

============== Why use macOS?

I have been developing homebrew stuff for PlayStation platform since last 15 years and since my first Apple laptop with Osx Panther (2003) it has been my development platform. I don't like open a virtual machine with linux or windows to develop, i like more use all directily in my Mac, so for me it is the best option.

============== Steps

1. Install macOS Sierra.

I made a clean installation because i like more a fresh install instead of upgrade. I was in Os X Maverick so first i always make a copy of my system in external disk with carbon copy cloner and then check that i can boot from it before install new operating system. You can follow many guides on internet to do it.

2. Install Xcode

Go to apple appstore download and install Xcode (Version 8)

3. Install Xcode command line tools

Go to apple developer site and download and install Command Line Tools (macOS 10.12) for Xcode 8 package

4. Install some misc tools that i use often

• XQuartz from https://www.xquartz.org/index.html
• TextMate from https://macromates.com/
• iTerm from https://www.iterm2.com/
• Enable root account (Open Directory Utility in drop down "Edit Menu" enable root user and it will ask you to set a password for root user)

5. Install macports (other people use homebrew instead)

Go to https://www.macports.org/install.php and follow steps described for macOS Sierra

sudo port -v selfupdate

sudo port install autoconf automake bison flex texinfo ncurses wget libelf zlib libtool git gmp openssl mpfr libmpc unrar subversion bzip2 cmake pkgconfig go python34

6. Create base directory for vitadev and clone repositories

cd /usr/local
sudo mkdir -p vitadev/git
sudo chown -R youruser:staff vitadev
cd vitadev/git
git clone http://github.com/xerpi/libvita2d
git clone http://github.com/xerpi/libftpvita
git clone http://github.com/xerpi/vita_portlibs
git clone http://github.com/frangarcj/psplib4vita
git clone http://github.com/psxdev/debugnet
git clone http://github.com/psxdev/psp2link
git clone http://github.com/psxdev/psp2client
git clone http://github.com/psxdev/vitasdk-macOS

7. Build toolchain and sdk

cd vitasdk-macOS
./build_macOS.sh

8. Install toolchain and sdk

cd vitasdk
cp -r bin /usr/local/vitadev
cp -r arm-vita-eabi /usr/local/vitadev
cp -r lib /usr/local/vitadev
cp -r share /usr/local/vitadev

9. Prepare profile with environment

I use this script vitadev.sh in /usr/local/vitadev customize your own

cat /usr/local/vitadev.sh
export VITADEV=/usr/local/vitadev
export VITASDK=/usr/local/vitadev
export PATH=$VITASDK/bin:$PATH
export PSVITAIP=192.168.1.24

10. Development session :)

cd /usr/local/vitadev
. ./vitadev.sh
cd git
cd vita_portlibs
make
cd ../libvita2d/libvita2d
make
make install
cd ../../libftpvita/libftpvita
make
make install
cd ../../psplib4vita/psplib
make 
make install
cd ../../debugnet/libdebugnet
make
make install
cd ../../psp2link/libpsp2link
make
make install

11. Ready to have a lot of fun :)

============== Versions of software downloaded internally by build proccess

• http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.14.tar.gz
• http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-6.1.1.tar.xz
• http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.4.tar.xz
• http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpc/mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz
• git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
• http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-6.2.0/gcc-6.2.0.tar.bz2
• http://www.mr511.de/software/libelf-1.2.8.tar.gz
• http://isl.gforge.inria.fr/isl-0.17.1.tar.xz
• http://nih.at/libzip/libzip-1.1.3.tar.xz
• http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.xz
• http://github.com/akheron/jansson/archive/v2.8.tar.gz
• http://github.com/vitasdk/vita-headers
• http://github.com/vitasdk/newlib
• http://github.com/vitasdk/pthread-embedded
• http://github.com/vitasdk/vita-toolchain

============== Credits

• Based in soarqin good work at https://github.com/soarqin/vitasdk-msys2
• Previous work for osx at https://github.com/psxdev/vitasdk-buildscripts