Developers Introduction Guide

Contents 1 What this guide is 2 What this guide is not 3 Contents 4 Related documents

What this guide is

This guide was created to help people who already have experience with programming with getting started on Kore development.

What this guide is not

• This guide is not meant for people who have no programming experience at all.

It would be an advantage if you already have the following knowlege:

• Understanding of the difference between a compiled and interpreted language.
• Understanding of network programming.
• Some experience with DOS or command lines.

Contents

1. Introduction to open source
   • Advantages
   • Myths
2. Programming language
   • Overview
   • About Perl
   • About C++
3. Setting up the development environment
   • Before you continue...
   • ActiveState ActivePerl - the Win32 Perl interpreter
   • GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) - the C++ compiler
   • Editors
   • The XSTools library
   • How to use SVN (downloading the latest source code and submitting your changes)
4. How to use ActivePerl and GCC
   • ActivePerl
   • GCC
5. So, what now? (explains what you can do)

Related documents

• OpenKore source code documentation
• OpenKore Developers Page