Hi, I'm kind of new to C and completely new to Wii programming but I have a fair bit of experience with other languages and am very enthusiastic about learning. So, over the past two days I've made a program that will download a file you specify (see here) and experienced my fair share of code dumps and infinite loops. Fun times. Anyway, this is all in preparation of writing an RSS reader/web browser (let it never be said that I pick easy first projects ;-) ). This will be a lot easier if I can use some libraries, but I don't really know how to use stuff that's not included with devkitppc. I want to use mini-xml, but I don't know how to get started. Do I need to recompile this for PPC or anything, or basically how should I proceed? Edit: Solved by people on #wiidev, at least for the time being. Someone already ported mxml to Wii, and it is here: [code.google.com] . But I still would be interested in general links on how libraries work, how to compile them, how to create them, etc.http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?11,7856,7856#msg-7856Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:22:53 +0200 Phorum 5.2.23 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?11,7856,7929#msg-7929 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?11,7856,7929#msg-7929 iofthestorm CodingThu, 15 Jan 2009 00:14:34 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?11,7856,7928#msg-7928 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?11,7856,7928#msg-7928
For compiling existing libraries for use on the Wii, see the set of instructions I included in the Freetype compile I did. This applies to other libraries as well. They call this "cross-compiling" - meaning compiling on one architecture (eg: x86) for another (PPC). Some libraries compile without any modifications required, while others may have "endian" issues, in which case the code needs to be modified to use big-endian. There may be other incompatibilities for various reasons (eg: C standards, buffer sizes, file access code, etc). But, again, many of the well-established and better written libraries already avoid these issues.

For using a library, you need to include it in your makefile (eg: -lmxml), and use an #include for the .h file.

For making your own Wii library, there are some best-practices (eg: global vars are bad), and other than that, just compile your code into a .a file, and you're ready to go! A library as far as the Wii is concerned is just some precompiled code, very little black arts voodoo magic is involved. ;)]]> Tantric CodingWed, 14 Jan 2009 23:58:55 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?11,7856,7856#msg-7856 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?11,7856,7856#msg-7856here) and experienced my fair share of code dumps and infinite loops. Fun times.

Anyway, this is all in preparation of writing an RSS reader/web browser (let it never be said that I pick easy first projects ;-) ). This will be a lot easier if I can use some libraries, but I don't really know how to use stuff that's not included with devkitppc. I want to use mini-xml, but I don't know how to get started. Do I need to recompile this for PPC or anything, or basically how should I proceed?

Edit: Solved by people on #wiidev, at least for the time being. Someone already ported mxml to Wii, and it is here: [code.google.com] . But I still would be interested in general links on how libraries work, how to compile them, how to create them, etc.]]> iofthestorm CodingTue, 13 Jan 2009 23:41:41 +0100