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Getting started
Windows

Windows

The following instructions describe how to install BlocksDS on Windows natively. If you want to use it in WSL, follow the instructions for Linux instead.

Install Wonderful Toolchain

Follow the instructions in this link:

https://wonderful.asie.pl/wiki/doku.php?id=getting_started:windows

Add the BlocksDS repository to wf-pacman 

wf-pacman -Syu wf-tools
wf-config repo enable blocksds
wf-pacman -Syu

Install the ARM toolchain and BlocksDS 

wf-pacman -S blocksds-toolchain

To install the documentation and examples you can install:

wf-pacman -S blocksds-docs

Install third-party libraries (Optional)

You can also install some third party libraries like NightFox’s Lib and Nitro Engine using wf-pacman:

wf-pacman -S blocksds-nflib blocksds-nitroengine

You can get a full list of packages by running:

wf-pacman -Sl

How to update the SDK

When you want to update the packages, run:

wf-pacman -Syu

How to build projects

Run Wonderful Toolchain Shell from the Start menu. This shell has predefined environment variables to ensure that BlocksDS projects can be built. If you don’t, the environment variable BLOCKSDS won’t be set to the right path.

Now you can try to build one of the BlocksDS examples. From the shell, run:

cd /opt/wonderful/thirdparty/blocksds/core/examples/

From there, for example, go to graphics_3d/volumetric_shadow and type make. This will generate a NDS ROM that you can try with an emulator or a flashcart.

You can also try one of the open source projects made with BlocksDS that are listed here.

Note

If you get an error like command not found: make, you need to install it from the packages of your system. For example, try pacman -S make

Linux