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Nate!:
Also read this:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WorkingWithPatches

Particularly the "Applying a Patch" section.

Reading the above posted links and the one in this post should point you in the right direction.  Applying a patch involves a subsequent compiling of the source code.  Kind of a lengthy set of instructions so it's better that you read the links and post questions on a particular step.

You may want to move this thread to the "Getting Started And Compiling" board at the bottom of the forum.

lights0ut:
VMware and Colinux both use a form of hardware emulation with a 'linux image' which is setup by some Rockbox developers for Rockbox. That means that the linux images have everything included in them needed to download the source code (svn), apply patches (patch diff etc.) and compile the actual build (gcc, arm-elf-gcc, make, autoconf, binutils etc.) If you fell like it you can always install other programs on the image as apt-get and aptitude are included as well.

mschneider:
'I was reading "Working with patches" and i downloaded the gnuWin32 patch program. Does this work as well?

lights0ut:
I've heard of that program, but I've never used it. I'm pretty sure all that it does is apply the patch, it wont compile rockbox. So you would still need at least Cygwin to compile, in which case it is better that you go with a dev environment (cygwin etc.)

Cygwin is a little slow, but I think it is easiest to set up, just remember to follow all the steps in the walkthroughs.

scorche:
This is the first time I have ever heard that Cygwin is the easiest to set up.  Most people say VMware is because all you do is install VMware and run the image which already has everything set up for it.  ;)

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