installation guide

[Mu0n]

I just started getting cygwin set up on my Win10 machine, diligently following your instructions. Everything went well. I chose option 2 for the symbolic links (doing them inside the cygwin terminal rather than in my Windows path parameters). When I arrived at the x16 rom and emulator steps, it took me a while that I should git clone those repos as well. Downloading the binaries works well, but from a close-to-unix-noob status, I wanted to clone the repos so I can easily replace them as new versions arrive.

there doesn't seem to be a specific step for installing SDL2 on cygwin after the fact inside the terminal. I followed your other repo's readme (https://github.com/SlithyMatt/x16-assembly-tutorial) and I wish I would have just checked in SDL2 at that step.

The other missing step I found is that the cygwin environment is not finding ld65,exe, so I added it by going to /usr/bin and doing ln -s /cygdrive/c/users/whatever/workspace/cc65/bin/ld65.exe

Not doing so makes the rom make step complain about its absence. Just thought you'd add a line about these in the otherwise excellent readme files, which guided me well by the hand despite my 20 year old rust in unix navigation

edit - you already answered in the x16 community forums that it makes little sense to attempt a compilation of the emulator...inside the cygwin environment - just stick with the windows binary. makes sense! Although the ROM step was a very minor issue that would remain here if and only if they don't package the bleeding edge version every time in their win compiled binairies.