Is it possibe to use Lazarus fir NDS development

[WILL]

PS :
I've got a few screen shots/instructions of how I got it installed - I'll post the instructions here over the next week as it might help others new to the world of lazarus/fpc and targeting different cpus to get up and running.

Hey that'd be awesome. Also if you are interested in making a magazine article out of it I can see about putting it into issue 3 of Pascal Gamer Magazine. I'm always on the look out for some good solid articles like this.

Glad you got your platform setup now go show us some NDS games!

[slenkar]

I got it working too thanks

[slenkar]

the examples work except for the ones that need an include like texture.bin.inc
I have the texture.bin file but it needs to be texture.bin.inc
if i rename it I get errors

[JSoftware]

Remember, you need to convert it into delphi code from binary data

There should be a tool that can do that. I cant remember the name. bin2inc or something

[Legolas]

texture.bin is converted in an include file by using the provided makefile:

set PATH=%PATH%;c:\fpc4nds\bin\arm-nds
make OS_TARGET=nds CPU_TARGET=arm BINUTILSPREFIX=arm-eabi- PP=ppcarm.exe

I don't know if "make" can be called by Lazarus; however you could call "make" the very first time, in order to generate the inc files, then use Lazarus as usual

[slenkar]

so the executable that makes the bin into an inc is in the arm-nds folder and it begins with arm-eabi ??

How do I make an image into a BIN file?

[Legolas]

No, there is a little neat program called bin2s, that produces assembly files from binaries (texture.bin.s), then the makefile uses a "trick" to generate a pascal include file (texture.bin.inc). In the last step it calls the assembler to make an object file (texture.bin.o) from texture.bin.s.

About your other question, grit or wingrit should do the trick