Installing PDX files on hardware from the command line with MacOS?

SDK Get Help
3

An intersting challenge!

I managed to fix it :slight_smile:

Make sure pdc and pdutil are available on the PATH

WARNING: This script only copies changed files to the playdate for a nice data transfer speedup. However, it only looks at file size to detect change. So if you are tweaking parameters setting for example fuel amount from 500 to 510, the file size doesn't change and the file will not be updated.
See console output to verify which files were updated.
To send all files to the playdate, remove --size-only from this script.

This works on Mac 12.6:

until ls /dev/cu.usbmodemPD*
do
  echo "Playdate not found. Is it connected to USB and unlocked?"
  sleep 1
done

PDUTIL_DEVICE="$(ls /dev/cu.usbmodemPD* | head -n 1)"
echo "device $PDUTIL_DEVICE"


# Get Game name from pdxinfo and remove whitespace. pdutil cannot run files with whitespace in them
PRODUCT="$(cat Source/pdxinfo | grep name | cut -d "=" -f 2- | sed '/^$/d;s/[[:blank:]]//g').pdx"

echo "Compiling C projects and libs"
make device

echo "PDUTIL_DEVICE ${PDUTIL_DEVICE}"
echo "PRODUCT ${PRODUCT}"
pdc Source "${PRODUCT}"
pdutil "${PDUTIL_DEVICE}" datadisk

echo "Waiting for Data Disk to be mounted ... "
until [ -d /Volumes/PLAYDATE/GAMES ]
do
     sleep 1
done
echo "Game Dir mounted"

# Only copy files with changed file sizes. To copy all files, remove "--size-only"
rsync -zarv --size-only --prune-empty-dirs "${PRODUCT}" "/Volumes/PLAYDATE/Games/"
MOUNT_DEVICE="$(diskutil list | grep PLAYDATE | grep -oE '[^ ]+$')"
diskutil unmount "${MOUNT_DEVICE}"
diskutil eject PLAYDATE

echo "Waiting for USB Device to be mounted ... "
until ls "${PDUTIL_DEVICE}"
do
     sleep 1
done
echo "Usb Device Connected"

# run
echo "Running ${PRODUCT}"
pdutil "${PDUTIL_DEVICE}" run "/Games/${PRODUCT}"
3 Likes