Development on Linux

This wiki explains how to compile GIMX from a Linux terminal.

Install development packages

   sudo apt-get install subversion g++ libwxgtk2.8-dev libbluetooth-dev libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev libusb-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libncursesw5-dev gettext xterm xdg-utils

patch and libxi-dev were also required before r1277.

On Fedora: yum -y install wxGTK-devel bluez-libs-devel glib2-devel libxml2-devel libXi-devel libusb-devel (to be completed)

Compile a patched SDL library (not required anymore since r1277)

   wget http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.14.tar.gz
   tar xzvf SDL-1.2.14.tar.gz
   svn export http://diyps3controller.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/libsdl/patch
   cd SDL-1.2.14
   patch -p1 < ../patch
   ./configure ; make
   cd ..

Copy SDL headers and .so (not required anymore since r1277)

   mkdir -p libsdl/lib
   mkdir -p libsdl/include/SDL
   cp SDL-1.2.14/build/.libs/libSDL.so libsdl/lib
   cp SDL-1.2.14/include/* libsdl/include/SDL

Download GIMX sources

   svn checkout http://diyps3controller.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/GIMX

Compile

   cd GIMX
   make -j 2

Replace "2" with your number of CPU cores.

Install

   sudo make install

Set Input Device Permissions (required since r1277)

One way to give read permissions to GIMX is to create a special group, change /dev/input/event* group ownership to that group, and then make the gimx binaries setgid to that group.

groupadd -f input

echo "KERNEL==\"event*\", NAME=\"input/%k\", MODE:=\"660\", GROUP=\"input\"" > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-gimx-input.rules
echo "KERNEL==\"js*\", NAME=\"input/%k\", MODE:=\"664\", GROUP=\"input\"" >> /etc/udev/rules.d/99-gimx-input.rules
chgrp input /dev/input/event* /dev/input/js*

chgrp input /usr/bin/gimx-config /usr/bin/gimx-fpsconfig /usr/bin/gimx-bluetooth /usr/bin/gimx-serial
chmod g+s /usr/bin/gimx-config /usr/bin/gimx-fpsconfig /usr/bin/gimx-bluetooth /usr/bin/gimx-serial