[Tutorial] How to compile WiiFlow on Kubuntu

Post by **Ayatus** » Thu 21 Feb 2013 15:21

A Linux distro user for over ten years, I felt I had to offer this tuto.
It's quite similar in many ways to the tuto for Mac OS X but simpler and will be based on a Kubuntu 12.10 amd64.

Preparing the environment:

The whole process will be done from a terminal.

Installing the packages for compiling and versioning.

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sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion

We start by making sure we're indeed in our user directory:

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cd ~

We then create the development directory and move into it:

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mkdir WiiFlow && cd WiiFlow

Downloading and extracting libogc and devkitPPC:

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wget https://open-wiiflow-mod.googlecode.com/files/libogc_svn_r4902.zip
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/devkitpro/devkitPPC/devkitPPC_r26-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2
unzip libogc_svn_r4902.zip -d devkitpro
tar -xjf devkitPPC_r26-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2 -C devkitpro

Creating and saving the environment variables:

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echo 'export DEVKITPRO=/home/$USER/WiiFlow/devkitpro
export DEVKITPPC=$DEVKITPRO/devkitPPC' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

Creating a working copy of the WiiFlow sources

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svn co https://open-wiiflow-mod.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wiiflow-src

Compiling:

We start by moving into our working copy's directory:

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cd wiiflow-src

All that's left is to launch the compilation:

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make

To go further:

Odds and ends.

Cleaning up between two compilations:
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```
make clean
```
Speed up the compilation by running several processes in parallel with a multi-core processor, here a quad-core:
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```
make -j5
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Updating the working copy:
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```
svn up
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Undoing the changes made to the working copy's files:
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```
svn revert -R .
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Updating the working copy to revision n:
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```
svn up -r n
```

And finally, a customizable script to place at the root of the working copy:

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#!/bin/bash
# Suppression des fichiers objets d'une précédente compilation
make clean
# Restauration à l'état initial de la copie de travaille puis mise à jour
svn revert -R . && svn up
# Désactivation des Fanarts
sed -i 's/enable_fanart", true/enable_fanart", false/g' source/gui/fanart.cpp
# Désactivation de l'affichage de la piste sonore
sed -i 's/display_music_info", true/display_music_info", false/g' source/menu/menu.cpp
# Désactivation de la vibration de la wiimote
sed -i 's/rumble", true/rumble", false/g' source/menu/menu.cpp
# Désactivation de l'affichage des bannières dans les pages de configuration
sed -i 's/banner_in_settings", true/banner_in_settings", false/g' source/menu/menu.cpp
# Détermination de chemin par défaut de la NAND émulée
sed -i 's/wiiflow\/nandemu/nands\/pl_eu/g' source/defines.h
# Désactivation des plugins
sed -i 's/PLUGIN_DOMAIN, "disable", false/PLUGIN_DOMAIN, "disable", true/g' source/menu/menu_main.cpp
# Désactivation du menu source
sed -i 's/use_source", true/use_source", false/g' source/menu/menu_main.cpp
# Récupération de l'heure Unix en seconde avant compilation
d1=`date +%s`
# Compilation avec l'option -j[N] pour un Quadcore où N = nb core+1
make -j5
# Calcul du temps de compilation
echo -e "\033[00;31m compilé en $((`date +%s`-$d1))s\033[00m"

Post by **Oops** » Thu 21 Feb 2013 19:07

There's no stopping him

Post by **Ayatus** » Sat 1 Jun 2013 13:39

Added an example Bash script to customize WiiFlow.

[Tutorial] How to compile WiiFlow on Kubuntu