Setting up LDK Game Dev environment (Linux only!)

This document describes how to setup a development environment for the LDK Game.

NOTE: This procedure will only work for Linux-based computers due to the fact that the pre-compiled cross-compiler is built for Linux.

Requirements

• LDK Game with 2.1 Firmware installed
• Linux (Ubuntu 18+, 19+, Arch)

Instructions

Flash Compact 2.1 Firmware

• Power off device
• Extract Battery door & battery
• Extract MicroSD Card and place in an SD Card reader
• Determine which device is the SD Card
• Download Compact firmware here.
• Flash :

cd ~Downloads/
gzip -d RetroFW-Modus-compact.img.gz
sudo umount /dev/sd<DEVICE_LETTER>*
sudo dd status=progress if=RetroFW-Modus-compact.img of=/dev/sd<DEVICE_LETTER> bs=8M 

Setup Dev Environment

• Create LDK Directory: mkdir ~/ldk
• Download and unzip this file in ~/ldk:
• Execute configuration script:

cd ~/ldk/mipsel-linux-uclibc/
./relocate-sdk.sh
cd -

All done!