Installing Development Tool - emutyworks/Learning-GB-Programming GitHub Wiki

Installing WSL2 and Ubuntu

• Install Linux on Windows with WSL

Installing RGBDS

RGBDS (Rednex Game Boy Development System) is a free assembler/linker package for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

• GitHub
• https://rgbds.gbdev.io/docs/v0.9.1/

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pkg-config bison libpng-dev build-essential 

$ wget https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds/releases/download/v0.9.1/rgbds-0.9.1.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf rgbds-0.9.1.tar.gz
$ cd rgbds
$ make
$ sudo make install

Installing Emulator

• BGB
  BGB is a GameBoy emulator/debugger which runs on Windows and Wine.
• Emulicious
  Provides accurate emulation and includes powerful tools such as a profiler and source-level debugging for ASM and C via a VS Code debug adapter.

Installing VS Code

• VS Code
• RGBDS Z80
  This extension provides support for the RGBDS flavor of the Game Boy's Z80 variant assembly language in Visual Studio Code.