Where can I download the Rockbox Development Kit?

[stripwax]

Nowhere in the instructions does it tell you to enter just cd, nor dir.  Are you sure you are following the right instructions?
I'm sure the commands you are entering are working:  cd on its own will not change directory, so will not output anything, so will give the appearance of doing nothing.  dir on its own will print out nothing, if you run it from a directory that is empty.

Please read this page:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HowToCompile

If you've already downloaded the source code into a folder that you created, at the least you would need to cd into that directory first.  Also the instructions don't say to create a C: Rockbox folder, but you can create this folder anywhere you like.  If you got the source code from svn (i.e. the first section on the above page, and read the article UsingSVN if you don't know what that means), then it will download the source into the current directory so, again, if you create a new folder for the purpose of building rockbox, cd into that directory before running the svn command

[goblue829]

Yes, Cygwin is reading all my commands except "daily".  so once i get past cd and dir it says daily is not a command.  I don't understand why this one doesn't work.

[LambdaCalculus]

daily isn't a command. I suggest that you start learning a little bit about how bash works before attempting anything else right now. This page should get you started.

[goblue829]

If daily is not a command, what are they talking about here:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WorkingWithPatches?topic=SimpleGuideToCompiling

It says type daily filename.tar.tar after you type dir.

[LambdaCalculus]

If the tar file is too hard to work with, install subversion, and then you can just check out the source code by typing:

Code: [Select]

svn co svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk rockbox

This is much easier to work with, in my opinion.

[cool_walking_]

It looks like someone's created a script called "daily" that's supposed to be there, but for some reason it isn't.  You should be able to extract the .7z file with "p7zip -d filename.7z", after installing p7zip from the Cygwin setup (under "Archive").

Or you could do the "svn" command that LambdaCalculus379 posted, which will take longer, but allow you to keep the source up to date with "svn up".