Getting Started/devkitPSP

If your host platform is Windows then use the Windows Installer/Updater package. Otherwise you may proceed with manual installation.

devkitPSP is a slightly different beast to the devkitARM and devkitPPC since it's mainly Oopo's patches pulled into the devkitPro toolchain build system and a build of the pspsdk. The original links for these appear to be broken now so sadly we can't link there.

The first thing that you need to do is create a folder for the devkitPro toolchains. Start by opening a terminal - on OSX use the apple key + space, then type terminal. This command creates the new folder.

mkdir /opt/devkitpro

When we're done the layout for your devkitPro folder should end up like this, each folder links to the appropriate sourceforge package.

devkitpro
   |
   +-- devkitPSP

Nothing else should be placed inside these folders unless otherwise instructed by the devkitPro toolchain maintainers. On Windows several of these folders are removed and replaced by the update system.

The first package to install is the devkitPSP tarball, obtained from the devkitPSP link shown above. Download the appropriate tarball for your host platform - the files are named as devkitPSP_<revision>-<processor>-<os>.tar.bz2. For OSX we provide universal binaries - devkitPSP_<revision>-osx.tar.bz2.

Once the file is downloaded then you need to extract it into the devkitpro folder

cd /opt/devkitpro
tar -xvjf <file you downloaded>

Obviously replace <file you downloaded> with the name of the file obtained from sourceforge. On OSX you can simply drag & drop the downloaded file into the terminal window to get the file path.

Add these variables in your execution environment, for instance, editing the .bashrc file located in your home folder:

export DEVKITPRO=/opt/devkitPro
export DEVKITPSP=$DEVKITPRO/devkitPSP