Where to download the latest toolchain?

Henk · Post by **Henk** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:28 am

Heyas,

I found this on http://www.oopo.net/consoledev/

[05-25-2006] ps2dev-20060525.tar.bz2 - The newer, makefile-based toolchain build method.
[02-22-2006] newtoolchain-20060222.tgz - The new, experimental toolchain autobuild script.
[07-13-2005] ps2toolchain-20050713.tgz - The famous ps2dev toolchain autobuild script.

Now when I click either of those links it brings me to a location where only ps2toolchain-20050713.tgz is available. And since seems not to differ much from what is in svn, I am wondering where to download the other 2 files.

I read in this topic that the files were removed due to bandwith issues?

If any of the admins want an ftp account to host them on my server I can allocate 10GB of space with unlimited bandwith. It's a commercial server (costing me $70/month) so it has a good reliability and fast download speed.

Thanks for any help

Henk · Post by **Henk** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:33 pm

Is there actually a difference in the binutils/gcc versions, or is it only that the shell script was turned into a makefile?

Maybe someone can tell me what is the latest version of binutils and gcc available to compile to ps2sdk?

Thanks.

Bytrix · Post by **Bytrix** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:48 pm

We have a whole svn full of useful stuff here at ps2dev. You can checkout the latest pspsdk from there:

http://svn.ps2dev.org/listing.php?repna ... rev=0&sc=0

.. and toolchain:

http://svn.ps2dev.org/listing.php?repna ... rev=0&sc=0

Henk · Post by **Henk** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:55 pm

Thanks for the reply.

I wasn't looking for the PSP stuff but for the PS2 stuff. And I finally found what I was looking for, but had to use some "tricks" to get what I want :)

When you click on any of the links on dev.oopo.net, you get always to the same page: http://ps2dev.org/ps2/Tools/Toolchain

There you just have one download link: http://ps2dev.org/ps2/Tools/Toolchain/p ... 3.download

But as posted above, I wanted the latest toolchain, ps2dev-20060525.tar.bz2

Now I tried the following:

http://ps2dev.org/ps2/Tools/Toolchain/p ... 5.download

and although it is nowhere linked or explained on the main website, it worked and downloaded me the file I wanted :)

So to answear my original question as to where to download the latest PS2 Toolchain, simply click here:

http://ps2dev.org/ps2/Tools/Toolchain/p ... 5.download

P.S. Maybe a MOD / ADMIN can change my topic tile to:

[SOLVED] Where to download the latest PS2 toolchain?

Bytrix · Post by **Bytrix** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:26 pm

That's odd, I never read the PS2 forums, thought this was in the PSP forum.

Anyway the same applies for the PS2 SDK, the latest version (which probably contains numerous updates since that download you have) can be downloaded from the SVN here:

http://svn.ps2dev.org/listing.php?repna ... rev=0&sc=0

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:19 am

Getting the toolchain from svn is the best way, but don't forget to get the patchfiles at the same time (they're in the same directory). While the PSP toolchain downloads the latest patchfiles from the repo, the PS2 toolchain doesn't, and will fail while building if you don't get the patchfiles and put them in the same directory as the toolchain script.

Henk · Post by **Henk** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:50 am

When I checkout the toolchain from svn I get some patch files and a toolchain.sh script. It is nearly the same as what you get in [07-13-2005] ps2toolchain-20050713.tgz - The famous ps2dev toolchain autobuild script.

The reason I asked for the other file is that I wanted to get the [05-25-2006] ps2dev-20060525.tar.bz2 - The newer, makefile-based toolchain build method. It seems not to be in svn, and if it is, I'd be happy to know how to get it because it seems I'm too stupid to find it.

The makefile seems to be working ok, and I really prefer that over the old toolchain.sh file.

Henk · Post by **Henk** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:52 pm

I was wondering something. The svn version of the toolchain contains the patches and the toolchain.sh file, while ps2dev-20060525.tar.bz2 contains the already patched versions plus the makefile.

Maybe I should provide a new toolchain.sh file that only downloads the files and applies the patches. Then we can also add the makefile to the svn.
This way, if you need the toolchain you checkout the svn, run the new toolchain.sh to download the stock version of binutils, gcc etc. and apply the patches. Then you can run the makefile to build and install the toolchain.

Alternatively, I could expand the makefile to also make the download and patching, then the toolchain.sh could be completely be replaced by the makefile.

What you think would be the better approach?

Lukasz · Post by **Lukasz** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:13 pm

I don't think there is any reason to change toolchain.sh, as it gets the job done and works just fine as is :-)

I wrote a tutorial a while back about how to get build the toolchains with toolchain.sh

http://lukasz.dk/programming/playstatio ... -tutorial/