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SDK adventures with GDBK, SGDK, Playdate (and perhaps more!)

Instructions

Disclaimer: Consider this alpha software (or worse), so use at your own risk.

• You'll need Premake5
• You'll need GBDK, SGDK and Playdate C
• You'll need a slew of environment variables setup including
  • $(GBDK_HOME) -> location of GBDK, parent folder of bin, lib, etc.
  • $(GBDK_EMU) -> executable of your favorite GBDK output runner
  • $(SGDK_PATH) -> location of SGDK, parent folder of bin, inc, etc.
  • $(SGDK_EMU) -> executable of your favorite SGDK output runner
  • $(JAVA_HOME) -> parent of bin folder that contains java.exe, needed for SGDK
  • $(MAKE_PATH) -> location of GNU Make, required for Makefiles
  • $(PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH) -> location of Playdate SDK

Once you have these, run Premake5 where premake5.lua with vs2022 as your argument and a Visual Studio solution will be generated.

Known Issues

There are a few but the most prominent include:

• All VC++ dirs for GBDK and SGDK configurations need to be cleared out to avoid looking up the wrong C standard libraries. It is unclear to me right now how to make Premake clear those values.
• Debug command values may not get set; in this case, the known fix is to delete the .vs folder and re-open the solution.
• SGDK output goes into an out folder instead of bin like the others. This is because of the behavior of SGDK's Makefile.