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Add Docker build script
Description
There was a lot of overhead and package installations for macOS/Windows, but I saw that it was much simpler to build these roms on Ubuntu. So I ended up writing a Dockerfile for myself to build https://github.com/pret/pokefirered, https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald, and the like!
This PR adds a script (with the Dockerfile baked in) which can cleanly build GBA pret projects.
To use the script, you can run in this directory:
./pret_gba_build.sh
To test it, say, on pokeemerald, you can either copy it over, or you can run:
./pret_gba_build.sh /path/to/pokeemerald
For more information, just run:
./pret_gba_build.sh --help
If we want to merge this script, it would have to be replicated for each GBA project. If that's too much overhead, then maybe I can just keep the script as a Gist or another repo and it can be linked to in INSTALL.md? Let me know your thoughts!
Issues
The main downside of building with Docker, especially on macOS and Windows without WSL2, are that things will be slow.
Other than that, there's some repeated steps here -- for example, for safety, I re-install agbcc into the project directory each time. Perhaps I should just check whether it's installed and up-to-date?
Lastly, building could be a little nicer.
- There's currently no build output at all if the build is already up-to-date, meaning that it sort of hangs there silently before exiting successfully.
- Commands like
make cleancan't be run from the container; they need to be run directly in your shell.
Maybe this shouldn't be merged, but still wanted to put it out there in case people find it useful.
I actually just use this one script for all of them. When I want to build firered I do ./pret_gba_build.sh projects/pokefirered and when I want to build emerald I do ./pret_gba_build.sh projects/pokeemerald, but it's totally fine to just include it in all the repositories.