Homebrew developers who are tired of waiting for Cygwin to compile all those complicated toolchains you've coded over the past few hours can always opt to try out a more lightweight programming kit for your favorite homebrew projects.

Developer jsharrad was able to compile a homebrew SDK which puts together all the important programming tools and toolchains for developing apps for the PlayStation Portable.

Most of the tools on the premade PSPSDK and toolchain Linux virtual machine compilation was originally taken from the lightweight Linux distribution released by Slitaz, sans "most of the non-development related stuff." (jsharrad gives credit to Slitaz still.) The good thing about this compilation is that it ties together everything into a small and neat package under 100MB.

In addition, you'll also need to pick up any of the popular virtual machine software available for download on the Internet. It's free to download, although you'll need to look for a version which will allow you USB access upon installing.

Anyway, please make sure to have at least 2GB of space left on your hard disk once you copy all the necessary software, since this will take up a lot of space. We highly recommend you read the discussion of this homebrew compilation on the QJ.NET PSP Development forum for detailed instructions on how to install everything into your PC.

Download: Premade PSPSDK and toolchain Linux VM
Visit: QJ.NET's PSP Development forum