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Frequently Asked Questions

General

What is the Wonderful Toolchain?

The Wonderful Toolchain is an assortment of development toolchains for a variety of embedded platforms, with a particular focus on “bare metal” game consoles, which I maintain for personal research and development purposes.

Unlike other such projects, it is primarily intended as an experimental testbed for my own use; it may not be the best choice if you want a long-term, dependable solution. However, if you like to tinker, you might find it just right.

How can I install the Wonderful Toolchain?

See the getting started guide for more information.

What long-term stability guarantees does the Wonderful Toolchain provide?

Unfortunately, due to the R&D nature of the toolchain, no long-term stability guarantees can be made; I wish to retain the freedom to break and modify things to improve them. I will try my best to provide migration advice and information for any such breaking changes, however.

Design

Can I use a system-provided version of the Pacman package manager?

No, and it is unlikely to ever be possible. wf-pacman is customized to (a) treat /opt/wonderful as the root directory and (b) allow running without root.

  • This approach allows reducing concerns of safety and security over a package manager that can write to the entire system space.
  • The Wonderful toolchain wishes to minimize system configuration divergence while still supporting diverse configurations. Standardizing components of the toolchain helps maintain that goal.
faq.txt · Last modified: 2024/11/14 14:53 by asie