This repository contains PKGBUILD scripts for Midipix-related packages.

Using these scripts, you can build a working midipix toolchain including GCC, Musl, psxscl, and ntctty for Arch Linux.

The arch-linux directory contains packages that are meant to be compiled, installed, and executed on an Arch Linux system. It would not make much sense to copy the compiled package files to Windows because they might contain Linux binaries. The files installed by these packages live in standard places like /usr/bin and /usr/lib, and they are compiled using the default makepkg configuration of your Arch Linux system.

The cross directory contains packages that are meant to be compiled and installed on an Arch Linux system, but they are meant to be copied to Windows to actually execute. They should be compiled with the makepkg configuration file makepkg-nt64.conf.

Arch Linux is a Linux distribution that uses a package manager named pacman. The scripts in this repository that use the name PKGBUILD are shell scripts that describe how to build Midipix-related packages for Arch Linux. The PKGBUILD scripts are read and processed by the makepkg utility that comes with pacman.

If you already know a little bit about pacman and makepkg, you can just use the scripts in this repository to build all the packages.

If you are not familiar with makepkg or you just want to save some time, I have provided a Ruby script called megabuild.rb that aims to automate the building and installation of the packages as much as possible.

How to use megabuild

1. Install the Arch Linux packages needed for building:

    pacman -S ruby base-devel
   

2. Megabuild will place all of its build files in $PWD/build, $PWD/build.log, and $PWD/pkg, where $PWD is your current working directory. So if you want those files to be somewhere special, you can change to that directory now.

3. Check the status of your system by running:

    ./megabuild.rb --status
   

4. This basically shows a list of packages, in the order that megabuild wants to build them, and tells you if they are installed or not. Note that pacman packages have a cool feature where a package with one name can declare that it provides the features of a package with a different name. This feature is controlled by the provides array in the PKGBUILD scripts. For example, x86_64-nt64-midipix-psxscl provides x86_64-nt64-midipix-psxstub. So if the megabuild status command tells you that the x86_64-nt64-midipix-psxstub dependency is satisfied, it means that either there is a package with that name installed or there is another package that provides the same features.

5. Start building packages:

    ./megabuild.rb
   

6. If you get tired of having to enter your sudo password and answer pacman prompts whener megabuild installs a package, then you can run:

    ./megabuild.rb --noconfirm
   

7. To avoid having to type your password for sudo, you can add the following line to a file in /etc/sudoers.d:

    yourusername ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pacman
   

See also

• https://github.com/lalbornoz/midipix_build