Installation on Windows

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

On Windows the PSPDEV toolchain is run on Ubuntu running on Microsoft’s WSL. This is very easy to set up and will offer us the full power of Linux from a Windows machine.

To set up WSL with Ubuntu in it run the following commands in a Powershell window started as administrator (right click run as administrator on Powershell in the start menu):

wsl --install

After this is done, Ubuntu can be selected from the start menu to open a terminal. This will be used for all commands going forward.

Files in Ubuntu can be accessed through a network share. In This Computer right click on the background and select Map network drive. Set the folder to \\wsl$ to make it easily accessible.

Dependencies

The PSPDEV toolchain requires a couple of dependencies to be installed before use. To install them, run the following command from an Ubuntu terminal:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake pkgconf libreadline8 libusb-0.1 libgpgme11 libarchive-tools fakeroot curl

Toolchain

Installing the PSPDEV toolchain itself can be done with the following steps:

1. In a fresh WSL Session download the Toolchain Archive using curl curl -O https://github.com/pspdev/pspdev/releases/latest/download/pspdev-ubuntu-latest-x86_64.tar.gz
2. Extract the archive using tar -xvf pspdev-ubuntu-latest-x86_64.tar.gz
3. To make the toolchain usable, some environment variables need to be set. The first step in doing so it to open the ~/.bashrc file with the nano text editor using the following command from an Ubuntu terminal:

    nano ~/.bashrc
   

4. Add the following lines at the bottom of the file in the text editor:

    export PSPDEV="$HOME/pspdev"
    export PATH="$PATH:$PSPDEV/bin"
   

5. Now save and exit by pressing Ctrl+X, then Y and then enter/return.
6. Close the current Ubuntu terminal and open a new one.
7. From the new Ubuntu terminal, run the following command to confirm everything is set up correctly:

    psp-config --pspdev-path
   

That’s it, now the PSPDEV toolchain can be used to build PSP software. Check out the Basic Programs page to for examples on what you can do with it.