Building Guide

Note

The need for an elf file from the Majora's Mask decompilation is temporary and will be removed in the future.

This guide will help you build the project on your local machine. The process will require you to provide two items:

A decompressed ROM of the US version of the game.
An elf file created from this commit of the Majora's Mask decompilation.

These steps cover: acquiring these, running the required processes and finally building the project.

1. Clone the Zelda64Recomp Repository

This project makes use of submodules so you will need to clone the repository with the --recurse-submodules flag.

git clone --recurse-submodules
# if you forgot to clone with --recurse-submodules
# cd /path/to/cloned/repo && git submodule update --init --recursive

2. Install Dependencies

Linux

For Linux the instructions for Ubuntu are provided, but you can find the equivalent packages for your preferred distro.

# For Ubuntu, simply run:
sudo apt-get install cmake ninja libsdl2-dev libgtk-3-dev lld llvm clang-15

Windows

You will need to install Visual Studio 2022. In the setup process you'll need to select the following options and tools for installation:

Desktop development with C++
C++ Clang Compiler for Windows
C++ CMake tools for Windows

The other tool necessary will be make which can be installe via Chocolatey:

choco install make

3. Creating the ELF file & decompressed ROM

You will need to build this commit of the Majora's Mask decompilation. Follow their build instructions to generate the ELF file and decompressed ROM. However, while building you may get the following build error:

RuntimeError: 'jr' instruction does not have an 'jump label' field

To fix this you will have to modify the problematic file tools/disasm/disasm.py at line 1115. This issue is due to a bug in this specific commit of the decomp project and will be resolved once Zelda64Recomp is updated to a more recent commit. To fix it, replace the line:

- elif insn.isJump():
+ elif insn.isJumpWithAddress():

Upon successful build it will generate the two required files. Copy them to the root of the Zelda64Recomp repository:

mm.us.rev1.rom_uncompressed.elf
mm.us.rev1.rom_uncompressed.z64

4. Generating the C code

Now that you have the required files, you must build N64Recomp and run it to generate the C code to be compiled. The building instructions can be found here. That will build the executables: N64Recomp and RSPRecomp which you should copy to the root of the Zelda64Recomp repository.

After that, go back to the repository root, and run the following commands:

./N64Recomp us.rev1.toml
./RSPRecomp aspMain.us.rev1.toml
./RSPRecomp njpgdspMain.us.rev1.toml

5. Building the Project

Finally, you can build the project! 🚀

On Windows, you can open the repository folder with Visual Studio, and you'll be able to [build / run / debug] the project from there. If you prefer the commandline or you're on a Unix platform you can build the project using CMake:

cmake -S . -B build-cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release # or Debug if you want to debug
cmake --build build-cmake --target Zelda64Recompiled -j$(nproc) --config Release # or Debug

6. Success

Voilà! You should now have a Zelda64Recompiled file in the build-cmake directory!

Important

In the game itself, you should be using a standard ROM, not the decompressed one.

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