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It wouldn't be done via devkitPro anyway - http://devkitpro.org/wiki/About

devkitPro is a vendor of tools not a tool, distribution or anything else you might use to build code. You wouldn't ask how you draw pictures via Adobe or how you calculate spreadsheet cells via Microsoft.

The DS hardware ...

For the crash issue have a look at this post -> http://devkitpro.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2182

What's dev_make.exe? Did you rename the make in the msys/bin folder or something?

No rule to make target `Debug' & No rule to make target `Release' are exactly what they say, there are no rules for either ...

This fails to install for me, for some reason it can't install default.js - Vista 32bit Home Premium, both express 2008 & 2010 installed.

We do already have a wizard that I haven't yet got around to including in the installer - http://pern.drunkencoders.com/screensho ... tures-wiz/

Try preventing Windows Defender from scanning the devkitPro folder, some instructions on adding exclusions at http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-vista-t ... mpeng-exe/

The sample needs to be mono.

grit doesn't handle DS texture formats. There are some tools around somewhere to do it but right now I'm not sure where, I'll have a look and see what I can find.

It would be helpful if you told us what the errors were and which Makefile you're using.

The windows installer/updater should have installed msys & set the path, assuming you didn't deselect msys. Run the updater again, I uploaded a new msys bundle a few hours ago.

Apologies for the delay in a definitive reply here, I've just had to delete several posts playing guessing games which really isn't at all helpful :|

I've just updated the msys bundle provided in the installer so run an update and see if that sorts your problem. Failing that, the usual reason for ...

Unless Code::Blocks finally allowed you to use a custom makefile I'd give in and look for something else - I just had a look at the latest release and it's unfortunately basically unusable on OSX.

I've been having reasonable success playing with CodeLite though, I'm probably going to start using ...