Herein lies the source code for dslibris, an EPUB ebook reader for the Nintendo DS, DSi and DSi XL.

Download the zip file in the Releases section.

See INSTALL.txt or the Quickstart page in the Wiki.

WARNING: the main branch currently fatally fails to render text. dslibris will freeze in the book browser with no text displayed.

We use devkitPro's toolchain for ARM, aka devkitARM.

Development is biased towards Debian-clan (eg Ubuntu) as a platform. You should also get far with macOS. CentOS and msys2 have also worked, but haven't been checked recently. Ubuntu under WSL would work too, but you'll be missing mount support for emulator testing.

Some configuration exists for using Visual Studio Code.

Once dkp-pacman is installed, can get needed packages via

sudo dkp-pacman -S $(cat requirements.txt)

Afterwards we need to install the legacy version of freetype that dslibris relies on.

sudo ./lockfix/setup-noinline
./install-freetype 2.4.8
sudo ./lockfix/revert-inline

To build the program, assure devkitARM is available to your shell:

. /opt/devkitpro/devkitarm.sh

then

make

dslibris.nds should show up in the top directory.

If your media does not auto-patch DLDI, .dldi for a few specific cases (R4, CycloDS Evolution, MPCF) are here:

etc/dldi

used like e.g.

dlditool etc/dldi/r4_v2.dldi dslibris.nds

Copy your build to a DS and maybe Log() messages. Good luck.

Blog: http://ray.haleblian.com/wordpress/dslibris-an-ebook-reader-for-the-nintendo-ds/

Development Tools: http://devkitpro.org

EPUB/W3C/IDPF: http://idpf.org