e6_3DS

e926/e621 image board client for the Nintendo 3DS

Development

Distrobox setup

Follow these instructions to install Distrobox on your system. You're usually gonna want to do it using your system's package manager.

Afterwards run ./setup_distrobox.sh for a quick setup.

You should now be able to log into the distrobox using distrobox enter.

Important

From now on ALL commands you run should be from within the 3ds-dev distrobox. Otherwise you'll run into problems, builds will fail, or you'll make a mess in your host system.

Integrating $CONTAINER_ID in your terminal's prompt makes it easier to tell.

IDE setup

Unfortunately for this one you'll have to mostly figure it out yourself.

I use Kate and with the provided .kateproject you can just launch an instance from the host and it should hook into the distrobox for clang integrations.

Building from source

Make sure that you followed [#distrobox-setup] and it didn't yield any errors! You should have devkitpro and all dependencies installed now.

Also ensure that you are in the distrobox environment by now - if echo ${CONTAINER_ID} returns 3ds-dev, you're all good. Otherwise enter the previously created container with distrobox enter 3ds-dev

You may build with either the build.sh script provided or with make. If you wish to edit it using an lsp-server enabled IDE, you're gonna want to use bear -- make to generate associated compilation info.

The simplest way to build it:

./build.sh

Generating/converting fonts

The 3DS doesn't read TTF fonts, so we need to convert it into bcfnt with mkbcfnt included in the tex3ds package

mkbcfnt "Roboto-Regular.ttf"  -o Roboto-Regular.bcfnt

Generating/converting textures and spritesheets

Troubleshooting

If tex3ds or any other command from the devkitpro toolkit return command not found:

1. Try relogging into the container with exit and distrobox enter 3ds-dev.
2. Otherwise, you may just use binary paths like /opt/devkitpro/tools/bin/tex3ds ...