

To get started, clone vitasdk/packages, cd into a directory with a VITABUILD file and run vita-makepkg. Vitasdk ships with a flexible makepkg-based build system for building packages that can later be installed into the SDK. If you would like to help contribute to the Vita SDK project, we would love to have a debugger for the system. You can then parse the core dump to figure out what caused the crash. If your app crashes, a core dump will be generated in ux0:data. DebuggingĬurrently, there is minimal debugging support. Once you installed HENkaku, open up molecularShell and copy your built VPK to ux0:data through FTP.


Currently the only hack is HENkaku which requires firmware 3.60. To run homebrew, you need a hacked Vita or PS TV. VPK is what is installed to the Vita as a bubble. VPK is the homebrew package format and is an archive of the SELF along with data files and LiveArea and is done by the CMake macro vita_create_vpk. SELF is the executable format that the Vita runs and the included CMake macro vita_create_self will build it for you. Buildingīuilding is done with CMake and you should familiarize yourself with the hello world CMake file to better understand how it works. Advanced developers can check out taiHEN for a substrate that allows you to hook system functions. It is highly recommended that you are familiar with writing homebrews before attempting to write a plugin, which is significantly more difficult to do. The environment is POSIX but the true power comes from the Sony specific APIs. It is recommended that you start by cloning the samples and by reading through them and understanding them. It includes everything you can do with the system. The APIs are gathered from reversing the Vita’s firmware. You can then reverse the steps in installing the prerequisite. To remove all traces of Vita SDK, just delete your $VITASDK directory. With vitasdk installed and in your PATH, just run vitasdk-update to get the latest toolchain build. This will install the toolchain and the most common libraries (including zlib, freetype, libvita2d, taihen and more). bash_profile on OSX) since using the toolchain requires VITASDK to be set. We also recommend making the change to your. Set the environment variable VITASDK to be the install destination for Vita SDK. Run mingw64 shell and install the dependencies: pacman -Su make git cmake tar mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git.If you have Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, then the recommended way is to follow the Linux directions above. Run either brew install wget cmake or port install wget cmake.Install the following (adapt the command for your system): apt-get install make git-core cmake python OSX You can find more information on the hack here. This allows you to create applications, games, and more (homebrew) to run on hacked Vita consoles. Vita SDK is an open source toolchain for PlayStation® Vita development.
