Rockbox simulator binaries for MacOS (ARM64)

[chris_s]

Great fwiw, objcopy is probably not required for the other targets

[rockbox_dev123]

As a very rough guide, this was what I did to get the sim working directly from the build directory:

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mkdir build && cd build
./tools/configure --target=ipod6g --type=n
make
make full-zip
mkdir simdisk && cd simdisk
unzip ../rockbox-full.zip
cd -

./tools/configure --target=ipod6g --type=s
make
cp ../uisimulator/bitmaps/UI-ipod6g.bmp UI256.bmp
rm -f simdisk/.rockbox/codecs/*.codec
cp ./lib/rbcodec/codecs/*.codec simdisk/.rockbox/codecs/
./rockboxui


[chris_s]

Heh, you may have overcompilcated things a tiny bit there, at least if you're only interested in the simulator. I'm not sure if that was intentional.

After the first line in your code snippet, in theory, all that should be needed for building and installing the ipod6g simulator itself is the following (the j option uses multiple threads to speed up the process):

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../tools/configure --target=ipod6g --type=s && make -j10 && make fullinstall
(Update 2024-12-19 not needed anymore) Optionally, if you want to have the device background displayed, at the moment you then also have to manually execute (as you mentioned):

cp ../uisimulator/bitmaps/UI-ipod6g.bmp UI256.bmp

[rockbox_dev123]

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../tools/configure --target=ipod6g --type=s && make -j10 && make fullinstall

Even easier, thanks!

[chris_s]

New version has been uploaded (20241218 source code snapshot corresponding to revision 12ea82d9e4). I'll try to update the OP with the current build semi-regularly.

Instructions on how to compile the simulator yourself have been added as well. If anyone wants to have a go....

A remaining TODO is to bring the MacOS-related info provided on the wiki  into the current decade...