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Environment Setup

This section provides the necessary steps for configuring a development environment to build and contribute to LÖVE Potion.

In order to start contributing, you will need to follow the instructions on the devkitPro Wiki for setting up a development environment. If you have an existing pacman installation (e.g. msys2 or Linux) then refer to this section on the devkitPro Wiki.

Dependencies​

Once the environment is set up, open your terminal and run the following commands to sync your packages and install the base development groups. On Linux and macOS, prepend dkp- to the pacman command if pacman was installed via the devkitPro installer.

pacman -Syu && pacman -S switch-dev 3ds-dev wiiu-dev

Next, please fork and clone the LÖVE Potion repository locally. Afterwords, change the working directory to where LÖVE Potion was cloned:

cd lovepotion

Install the required portlibs for whichever console that will be built:

pacman -S --needed - < platform/{console}/pkglist.txt

After everything has been installed, you can run the catnip build command to compile the code for your chosen console. catnip is a build tool provided by devkitPro for managing CMake builds of homebrew. Here are commands for each supported console:

catnip -T 3DS