HxCompileU: A way to create homebrew on the Wii U, using Haxe!

[stray wadi]

Well, hello hehe, I have decided to create a post here finally of one of the most ambitious and new projects that I have so far, and that is:

HxCompileU

HxCompileU, is a utility that allows you to use Haxe to create homebrew on the Nintendo Wii U, without the need to use C/C++ in progress! All thanks to Reflaxe.CPP that allows you to generate a C++ code ready to compile with the DevkitPPC utilities.

This tool comes with a set of other libraries made for use in Haxe, be it the Wii U WUT toolchain, and other libraries.
Currently this project is... very experimental, and clearly with many problems, but my purpose with this is to make it easier to create homebrew on a console as curious as the Wii U, using Haxe.

As I get new projects related to this one, I will be posting them here hehe

Get HxCompileU: https://github.com/Slushi-Github/hxCompileU

[cerulean vessel]

Now I extra want a Wii U.

[stray wadi]

Hehe, it's that project that's making me see the sense of having spent 4 months and 100 dollars on a Wii U

I am now creating a small engine based on SDL2

[stray wadi]

Well, using SDL2 without so much experience is a bit difficult hehe...

[pliant lake]

"Debuging"

[stray wadi]

[stray wadi]

Well, I can finally create images in PNG format, I can resize them, move them and even rotate them.
https://i.e-z.host/prnjefmj.png

In a few days I will make public the SDL2 library that works with this project

[pliant lake]

812mb of ram for a single image feels wrong

💔

[stray wadi]

I don't think that's really the actual RAM usage on a real console, even though using PapayaHUD on the Wii U the only thing I can't see is the RAM usage.
If that really is the actual RAM usage it would scare me because it's like 80% of all the RAM on the console

[stray wadi]

well, here it is
https://github.com/Slushi-Github/hxSDL2

[pliant lake]

im surprised how quickly you've learned slushi

[stray wadi]

Hehe, thanks... It's kind of fun this project knowing that I came from doing only things with FNF

[cerulean vessel]

woah

[median gyro]

So I can use this and hxcompileu to make wii u games!?

If only I had a Wii u :(

Wait

I have a Wii u in stupid

Wait omg I can legit homebrew my old ahh Wii u and make games for it

OH. MY. GOD.

Yess!!

I'm informing my brother IMMEDIATELY

[stray wadi]

Yes, if you know how to make games using SDL2, probably yes.
Although the library is not complete, it has what I have seen essential
I'm making a small engine based on SDL2 which should make it easier to create games.

[stray wadi]

As a little thing I have implemented a.. Server? I think it's not the right word, but, I have implemented one natively in HxCompileU so that you can see the log that the Wii U drops, since many plugins and other Aroma things drop messages that are visible by this means without having to look for the log in the system files.
https://i.e-z.host/v56azys3.png

[stray wadi]

And well, finally after months since the release of HxCompileU, a 2D game engine for the Wii U inspired by HaxeFlixel
https://github.com/Slushi-Github/leafyEngine

[cerulean vessel]

hypothetically would it be possible to make pc games with it too

[stray wadi]

Yup, with some changes probably yes since being SDL2, it gives a lot of possibilities for potability.
Although it is not the point of the project in general.

[cerulean vessel]

woa

[median gyro]

Its

Suspiciously similar to haxeflixel

Oml imagine flixel on Wii u

[high snow]

You're not going to believe this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWDq7XIy24o

[median gyro]

WAHAHA

UH

WO

[main rose]

how would i exactly install these libs?

[cerulean vessel]

by hoping you're lucky enough to have a linux distro with the pacman package installer

[main rose]

i hope linux mint fits 🥨

[stray wadi]

Nope

You can use the MSys2 provided by DevkitPro, I use that

Or by the pacman which they provide in Linux distros

https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started

[main rose]

what does this mean

it fills the console with errors

error: failed retrieving file 'msys.db' from mirror.msys2.org : error setting certificate file: /usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt is one of them

[stray wadi]

What- no no, Please follow the steps on the DevkitPro page..
https://devkitpro.org/wiki/devkitPro_pacman

Or this better https://github.com/devkitPro/installer/releases

[main rose]

i did install it

??

[stray wadi]

That's not Msys2

[main rose]

msys2 does the same thing

[stray wadi]

This is Msys2
https://i.e-z.host/zhqc4l3q.png

[main rose]

there

or do i need to use my laptop for this

with linux min

t

[stray wadi]

I would try to reinstall it, I really don't know how to help you with that kind of thing.

If you want to use Linux, in the end it is a better option than Windows for this kind of things, HxCompileU I have tested that should work fine on Linux.

[main rose]

alright

[stray wadi]

Even though the development of this whole project in general was done on Windows without any problems...
https://i.e-z.host/ihkwdrvq.png

[main rose]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-explosion-all-our-food-keeps-blowing-up-exploding-food-explode-gif-25266234

oh

[stray wadi]

So
https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1008580599595941998.png?quality=lossless&name=file_107096041&size=96

Sry xD

[main rose]

it works now

[main rose]

installing git libs

[main rose]

is the .elf file what i need for my homebrew thing?

i compiled it successfully

so uhmm about that-

this is my main.hx and teststate.hx

i use all of the git versions of the libs

when i comment LFEngine.init out, it works...

i am on windows 11

[stray wadi]

Nope, the .rpx is the file that the console would normally prefer to look for.

[stray wadi]

Mm, it seems a mistake that you are missing libraries, as I said in the readme there may be more libraries needed than I indicated, usually the one that asks for more libraries is SDL2.

[main rose]

oh thats why it does that

thank you!

[stray wadi]

By the way, I would recommend setting the generate documentation variable to false, just for convenience.

[main rose]

k

[main rose]

what libraries do i need exactly?

it doesn't exactly tell me what extra libs i need

do you know what extra libraries are needed

[stray wadi]

I will see later what libraries are needed, normally what I did was to put and error link in Google and look for what library to reference, and then look if I had it installed, if not, then I installed it.

[stray wadi]

@main rose
these are the libraries I saw that I apparently use

ppc-zlib 
ppc-libvorbis
ppc-libopus
ppc-libogg 
ppc-libjpeg-turbo
ppc-jansson 
ppc-freetype
ppc-bzip2
ppc-libpng

[stray wadi]

I have made a web page that among other things leads directly to a better documentation I have made for the engine.
https://slushi-github.github.io/leafyEngine/

[glossy spear]

I would like to report this error I have been getting. Is there any Haxelib I need to Install to fix this?

_main_.cpp
haxe_EntryPoint.cpp
C:/Users/W/fnfLeag/output/src/haxe_EntryPoint.cpp: In static member function 'static double haxe::EntryPoint::processEvents()':
C:/Users/W/fnfLeag/output/src/haxe_EntryPoint.cpp:27:18: error: no match for call to '(std::optional<std::function<void()> >) ()'
   27 |                 f();
      |                 ~^~
make[1]: *** [/opt/devkitpro/devkitPPC/base_rules:15: haxe_EntryPoint.o] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:101: build] Error 2
------------------

[ERROR] Compilation failed

i installed all git versions of the libraries methinks

[stray wadi]

Reflaxe/C++ problem
SomeRanDev already fixed the bug but I haven't updated my Reflaxe/C++ fork.

Done, I updated the fork and the bug should be fixed now xd

[main rose]

soo... what option do i pick ?

im installing the libratries/packages

do i choose all?

[stray wadi]

All

[main rose]

ok!

[main rose]

hmm.. that has caused an error

i copied the command form the github repo and removed the dkp thing because i use windows

[stray wadi]

Mm

Eh

[main rose]

do you have any solutions to this?

[stray wadi]

install everything one by one
osea pacman -Syu wiiu-sdl2 and so on

[stray wadi]

and with the first, just press enter, do not type “all”.

[stray wadi]

pacman -Syu wiiu-sdl2 wiiu-sdl2_gfx wiiu-sdl2_image wiiu-sdl2_mixer wiiu-sdl2_ttf

[stray wadi]

pacman -Syu ppc-jansson ppc-zlib ppc-libvorbis ppc-libopus ppc-libogg ppc-libjpeg-turbo ppc-freetype ppc-bzip2 ppc-libpng

and pacman -Syu wiiu-curl

With this, I imagine that if you have a Wii U with Aroma already installed
If you plan to just use an emulator, it's really not the best option.

[main rose]

if i get good grades and somehow manage to convince my dad to get me a wii u with an sd card.. i could mod it with aroma and test it irl

[stray wadi]

Oh, well, good luck

[main rose]

you too