to go back to DSGM and have my IDE do the hard stuff for you?

Another problem with your tutorial ( and this time I HAVE strictly followed your instructions ! ).

When trying to do a debug, VC++ first of all comes up with a dialog, saying build not done. Then it comes up with an error, saying do debugging information not available for ‘make.exe’ . Then, when I say continue, it eventually carries on and finds the emulator OK.

Net result is that I do finally reach nogba but only after forcing VC++.

Any ideas ? Thanks, Mike

No !

I did NOT follow your original article precisely step-by-step without any modifications.

I have now done that and everything works wonderfully.

I thought that I had made only a minor change from your tutorial but it was obviously very significant.

What I did was to start a new project in a new folder (NOT in the devkitpro folder ! ) and then added the existing .CPP file and makefile into that project by using VC++ ‘Add Existing File’ menu. Let’s face it, this is what I would normally do – I can’t expect to keep on relying on there being an existing demo folder.

However, this seems to make a real difference to the way that visual studio runs. Can you please help me to make VC++ work on a brand new NDS project rather than use an existing demo. Just where are the differences in your setup procedures.

Thanks, Mike.

I guess spaces in the project path can cause trouble. I can at least not compile a makefile project that contains space characters in its path. Could be worth to try to move the project to a non-space containing path and retry. Otherwise, have you followed the article step-by-step and used the helloworld project, does this work?

I really can’t see what is going wrong.

Yes, this small project will make just fine when done from the command prompt.

All I have done is to start a VC++ project and added the code and makefile in from the devkitpro folder.

Then, when I try to build I get the following error :-

1>—— Build started: Project: FirstNDS, Configuration: Debug Win32 ——
1>Performing Makefile project actions
1>make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
1>Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from “Performing Makefile project actions”
1>Build log was saved at “file://c:\Documents and Settings\michael.HOMEOFFICE\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\NDS\FirstNDS\FirstNDS\Debug\BuildLog.htm”
1>FirstNDS – 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Any more ideas ? Thanks, Mike.

If it compiles from the command prompt, open “Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories” inside Visual Studio and try if it helps when you modify “Executables files” as followed:
1) Move $(PATH) to the top
2) Add “c:\devkitpro\mysys\bin”

In case the project does not compile from the command prompt, I’d try an example from libnds (devkitpro/examples/libnds). If even this fails to build, I’d probably give it a try to reinstall devkitARM.

Hope it helps, let me know!

Any ideas please. Thanks, Mike