This folder contains some tools from the Cafe tree which are built as
part of the "normal" Cygwin / SDK build, but that leaves a dependency
on the Cygwin1.dll kernel which will cause failures for folks who have
not installed the Cygwin runtime.  Since CafeX is specifically targeted
at such folks this dependency is unaccceptable.

The tools can be built from source using the MinGW compiler as-is, but
most people, including the SDK build lab, do not have MinGW installed.
As such, these tools are built by hand when necessary by someone who
does have this compiler installed on their personal workstation.  The
build script for CafeX includes these prebuilt binaries as Windows
resources and are deployed dynamically when needed.


MinGW can be installed from www.mingw.org using the mingw-get application.

    Once mingw-get is installed, run the following from the command line:

    PATH=C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
    mingw-get.exe install mingw32-base mingw32-gcc-g++ msys

    Now the tools are installed to build both the tools.
        

The tools in question are currently:

    monitor.exe (from system/src/tool/monitor)
    dkt.exe (from (from system/src/iop/tools/devkit_test)

If changes are made to the source code for these tools, please contact
paulke02@noa.nintendo.com so he can update these pre-built binary
resources.

If you have MinGW installed and would like to try building these tools
yourself, they should build as-is.  Try

    PATH=C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
    cd %CAFE_ROOT%\system\src\tool\monitor
    gcc.exe -O2 monitor.c -lwsock32 -static-libgcc -o win_monitor.exe
    copy win_monitor.exe ..\cafex\Properties\binres
    
    cd %CAFE_ROOT%\system\src\tools\devkit_test
    g++ -O2 dkt_main.c dkt_socket_methods.c dkt_char_methods.c
        dkt_block_methods.c -lwsock32 -static-libgcc -o win_dkt.exe

If you have MinGW plus msys you can actually open a Cafe window with msys
instead of Cygwin and make it a bit easier on yourself:

    set PATH=C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
    set CYGWIN_PATH=C:\MinGW\msys\1.0
    cafe.bat
    cd $CAFE_ROOT/system/src/tool/monitor
    make
    cd $CAFE_ROOT/system/src/iop/tools/devkit_test
    make

But, again, it's probably easiest on you to contact Paul for any updates.

Thanks!