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-== Compiling ScummVM for Nintendo DS under Linux ==
+== Compiling ScummVM for Nintendo DS ==
 == Getting the source ==
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 == Tools/libraries needed ==
-You must have [http://www.devkitpro.org/ devitPro] installed. Version r24 is known to work, more recent versions may work, but occasionally introduce non-backward compatibility changes which cause them to break compatibility with ScummVM.
+You must have [https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started devkitARM] installed. Version r55 is known to work, more recent versions may work, but occasionally introduce non-backward compatibility changes which cause them to break compatibility with ScummVM.
-Moreover, by default, ScummVM DS expects to find libmad, an MP3 compressor library targeted for the ARM platform. If you don't have this, you must disable libmad support by opening 'backends/platform/ds/arm9/makefile' and commenting out the line which says USE_MAD = 1.
+You need to install at least the following packages:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-To sum it up, you need to install at least the following:
+sudo dkp-pacman -Sy
-* devkitPro, e.g. [https://sourceforge.net/projects/devkitpro/files/devkitARM/previous/devkitARM%20release%2024/ devkitPro r24]
+sudo dkp-pacman -S \
-* libnds
+    devkitpro-pkgbuild-helpers \
-* libfat
+    nds-dev \
-* libmad
+    nds-zlib
+</syntaxhighlight>
 == Compiling ScummVM ==
-Enter the <code>backends/platform/ds</code> folder and type:
+The following command should be run in order to setup your environment variables for cross-compiling:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-<syntax type="bash">
+source /opt/devkitpro/ndsvars.sh
-make SCUMM_BUILD=a
+</syntaxhighlight>
-</syntax>
-The executable nds file will build inside <code>backends/platform/ds/arm9/SCUMMVM-A</code>.
-For other builds, substitute the letters <code>b</code> to <code>g</code> in the above line.
-To build everything, type:
-<syntax type="bash">
+To compile ScummVM, issue the following commands inside the scummvm folder:
-make allbuildssafe
-</syntax>
-== Further reading ==
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-* [http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=3478 Forum thread "Compile Directions"]
+./configure --host=ds --enable-plugins --enable-all-engines
-* [http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=7535 Forum thread "version of devkitpro needed to compile 13.1"]
+make
+</syntaxhighlight>