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@AntonioND AntonioND released this 23 Dec 12:12
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v1.7.0
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

If you're updating your previous BlocksDS installation with wf-pacman, run this command twice instead of once:

wf-pacman -Syu

This is required because of the new repository that contains the BlocksDS pacman packages.

Changelog

  • libnds:

    • An exception handler has been added to the ARM7. This one is a lot less useful than the ARM9 one because it's only called on undefined instructions and internal libnds errors.
    • Add dldiRelocate(), which allows relocating a DLDI driver to a different memory address.
    • Fix DLDI memory pointers not being relocated for non-BSS/noinit areas.
    • Update FatFs to R0.15a.
    • glColorSubTableEXT() now supports allocating empty palettes by passing a NULL pointer in the table argument. This is a small compatibility break because this used to free the palette. However, the old behaviour stays as long as width is 0. In most cases, table would be NULL and width would be 0, so this change is only a problem in unusual cases.
    • Disable MPU safely before calling the exit-to-loader ARM9 hook in case the hook doesn't do it properly.

  • maxmod:

    • Remove non-standard .struct directives.

  • SDK:

    • picolibc:

      • Add asnprintf() and vasnprintf(), matching newlib.
      • Fix memory leak in asprintf() and vasprintf().

  • ndstool:

    • Add a default icon for new .nds files, preventing the generation of invalid banners.
    • Add support for extracting static .nds icons as .bmp files.
    • Allow specifying -bt without a language ID.
    • Fix the -n (latency) argument being a no-op, add corresponding -n1 argument.
    • Fix the -fh (fix header CRC) command not working with TWL-enhanced .nds files.

  • Docker:

    • curl has been added to both the development and slim images.
    • Add new BlocksDS pacman repository during setup.

  • pacman:

    • The pacman server of BlocksDS is now independent from Wonderful Toolchain.

      • The repository with the package build files is now in the BlocksDS GitHub organization in this URL: https://github.com/blocksds/packages

      • BlocksDS still uses Wonderful Toolchain as source for the compiler and the standard C and C++ libraries. It will keep using wf-pacman for the forseeable future as well.

      • Special thanks to asie for all his help.

      • Updating old installations requires the user to run the following commands:

        wf-pacman -Sy wf-pacman
wf-pacman -Syu
wf-pacman -Syu

    • New libraries are now available as pacman packages (µLibrary, libwoopsi, dsmi) as well as the tool ptexconv.

    • The GitHub pipeline of the SDK repository has been removed and added to the packages repository.

  • Documentation:

    • Update documentation with the instructions to use the new pacman repository.
    • Some outdated licensing information has been updated.
    • The docs generation script has been split into a script that generates it and a script that pushes the built documentation to the repository.
    • The updating guide has been updated for versions between 1.3.0 and 1.7.0.

  • Examples:

    • New example of gesture recognition using the $N Multistroke Recognizer.
    • New example of how to use CMake to build a project with BlocksDS.
    • Update the exception handler example to also support triggering ARM7 exceptions.

  • Other:

    • BlocksDS now has a dedicated URL (https://blocksds.skylyrac.net/) which means that it doesn't rely on GitHub URLs anymore. This main page redirects to the documentation, GitHub organization, and a NDS homebrew development manual.
    • A new prototype CMake build system has been added to the repository.
    • CC makefile variables have been renamed to HOSTCC when they refer to building host tools. This will make it possible to overwrite the host toolchain without also overwriting the ARM toolchain.
    • Use standard C types and fix includes in mkfatimg.
    • bin2c now has an option (--noext) that lets it export files excluding the extension from the name, the way some very old homebrew projects expect it.
    • Some sample defines have been added to the makefiles of the templates to clarify its syntax.
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