MSXBUILD

Utils to use openMSX in build pipelines.

You can use these scripts as-is. But as always, feel free to extend it for your specific needs or contribute a fix or feature.

OpenMSX missing automation documentation

• Don't use DirAsDisk, it is slow
• Wrap all TCL commands in catch+stderr+exit1
• Use TCL script for auto HD import/export
• Use stdio mode for headless and/or fast boot
• Disable throttling for automation steps
• Use fail_after TCL script to run openMSX safely
• Control openMSX from inside with TCL+command
• Enable SDL just before command is addictive fast
• TODO: Use TCL for BASIC/ASM/C lcov (Cobertura) code coverage

The files in this repro try to handle these steps for you.

Features

• Allows parallel headless openMSX build pipeline
• openMSX safe exit failure guards
• Automatic disk image import + export per build step
• Downloads and caches resources from msxhub.com
• Auto magic openMSX extensions and machine rom's setup
• SDCC msx build steps

Dependencies

• make + wget + tar + dos2unix
• sdcc
• openmsx
• ffmpeg (optional, see srv/assert-all/0module.mk howto merge videos)

For debian use;

apt-get install make wget tar dos2unix sdcc openmsx ffmpeg

Usage

Include the lib/make/msxbuild.mk file from your Makefile.
And override the paths if needed;

• PATH_SDCC=/usr/bin
• PATH_OPENMSX=/usr/bin

Then build result based compile rules see an example in; src/ahello-m80/0module.mk

When you want to see whats happening do a debug run;

normal run;
	time make assert-all
	real    0m3.223s

debug run at 11 Mhz;
	time MB_OPENMSX_HEADLESS=off MB_OPENMSX_THROTTLE=on make assert-all
	real    1m4.856s

debug run real msx speed;
	time MB_OPENMSX_HEADLESS=off MB_OPENMSX_THROTTLE=on MB_OPENMSX_SPEED=100 make assert-all
	real    2m37.379s

debug run with screenshot on exit; (Segfaults if using (old) SDL, or/and black screens without throttle)
	time MB_OPENMSX_HEADLESS=off MB_OPENMSX_THROTTLE=on MB_FLIGHT_SCREEN=on make -s assert-all
	real    1m14.043s

debug run with video recorder and merge to one video file;
	time MB_OPENMSX_HEADLESS=off MB_FLIGHT_VIDEO=on make -s assert-all
	real    0m7.136s

build parallel;
	time make -s -j4 assert-all
	real    0m1.817s

Functions

Current set is WIP.

• mb_autoexec_append_cmd
• mb_autoexec_append_echo
• mb_autoexec_append_rem
• mb_autoexec_append_show_gui
• mb_autoexec_append_stop_fail
• mb_autoexec_append_exit
• mb_autoexec_append_joyporta_mouse
• mb_autoexec_append_save_screenshot
• mb_autoexec_append_save_video
• mb_autoexec_append_safe_test
• mb_autoexec_append_safe_cmd
• mb_autoexec_write_default
• mb_autoexec_show_gui40
• mb_autoexec_show_gui40_mouse
• mb_autoexec_show_gui80
• mb_autoexec_show_gui80_mouse
• mb_autoexec_safe_cmd
• mb_autoexec_safe_test
• mb_msxhub_file
• mb_msxhub_get_dos1_boot
• mb_msxhub_get_dos2_boot
• mb_msxhub_get_dos2_utils
• mb_msxhub_get_nextor_boot
• mb_msxhub_get_nextor_utils
• mb_msxhub_get_macro80
• mb_msxhub_get_z80asmuk
• mb_msxhub_get_wbass2
• mb_msxhub_get_konpass
• mb_msxhub_get_pmarc
• mb_msxhub_get_lhpack
• mb_msxhub_get_lhext
• mb_msxhub_get_gunzip
• mb_msxhub_get_tunzip
• mb_msxhub_get_popcom
• mb_msxhub_get_make
• mb_msxhub_get_adir
• mb_msxhub_get_turbo
• mb_msxhub_get_baskom
• mb_msxhub_get_binldr
• mb_msxhub_get_dmphex
• mb_msxhub_get_zd
• mb_msxhub_get_msxdos2t
• mb_msxhub_get_gfxage
• mb_msxrom_file
• mb_msxrom_setup
• mb_msxrom_extension_ide
• mb_msxrom_extension_ide_nextor
• mb_msxrom_extension_scsi_novaxis
• mb_msxrom_extension_msxdos22
• mb_msxrom_extension_rs232
• mb_msxrom_extension_fmpac
• mb_msxrom_extension_fmpac_en
• mb_msxrom_extension_moonsound
• mb_msxrom_extension_basickun
• mb_msxrom_machine_Canon_V-20
• mb_msxrom_machine_Mitsubishi_ML-F80
• mb_msxrom_machine_Mitsubishi_ML-FX1
• mb_msxrom_machine_Mitsubishi_ML-G3_ES
• mb_msxrom_machine_Philips_VG_8000
• mb_msxrom_machine_Philips_VG_8230
• mb_msxrom_machine_Philips_NMS_8250
• mb_msxrom_machine_Toshiba_HX-21.xml
• mb_msxrom_machine_Yamaha_AX200
• mb_msxrom_machine_Yamaha_YIS-503IIIR
• mb_msxrom_machine_Panasonic_FS-A1WSX
• mb_msxrom_machine_Boosted_MSX2_EN
• mb_msxrom_machine_Boosted_MSX2+_JP
• mb_openmsx_setup
• mb_openmsx_dosctl
• mb_sdcc_compile_asm
• mb_sdcc_link_asm_lib
• mb_sdcc_link_asm
• mb_sdcc_link_asm_0000 = calls mb_sdcc_link_asm,$(1),$(2),0x0000
• mb_sdcc_link_asm_0100
• mb_sdcc_link_asm_1000
• mb_sdcc_link_asm_4000
• mb_sdcc_link_asm_8000
• mb_sdcc_link_asm_C000
• mb_sdcc_link_asm_dos = calls mb_sdcc_link_asm_0100
• mb_sdcc_hex2bin
• mb_clean
• mb_mkdir
• mb_delete
• mb_copy
• mb_unix2dos
• mb_dos2unix
• mb_create_dist
• mb_create_flight_video

Errata

• Imported folders in openMSX; cd utils;cd ..;dir breaks, use cd utils:cd a:\;dir as workaround
• Saving screenshots sometimes lets openMSX segfaults if using SDL
• Doesn't work on windows
• Missing C and mixed support
• If no SDL or SDLGL-PP than screenshots or videos don't work