CHDK-Shell

CHDK-Shell-GUI-Config-Dialog — Dialog: GUI Config

CHDK-Shell-GUI-ConfigPanel — Dialog: GUI Config Camera Panel

CHDK-Shell-AfterCheck-Dialog — Dialog: After Checking

CHDK-Shell is a nice GUI for developers to easily download, compile and manage the CHDK sources on a Windows platform.

The CHDK-Shell is written with AutoIt scripting language (easy to customise, the source code is included) by whim from the CHDK forum.

Getting Started

Download the FULL package (file CHDK-Shell-{version}-FULL-SFX.exe, approx. 17 Mb), it includes appropriate GCC compiler versions & all required files
Extract to an empty directory without spaces in name (example: D:\CHDK) - the installer will create one for you if you type a non-existing folder name;
When done, open the folder and start CHDK-Shell-{version}.exe
To install an update version, just choose your existing folder (that would be D:\CHDK in case of the example above) and allow the updater to overwrite files

Supported OS

Windows 2000 (tested)
Windows XP (tested)
Windows 2003 (tested, thanks hotvedt !)
Windows Vista (tested, thanks nmcconnell !)
Windows 2008 (needs testing, anyone ?)
Windows 7 (tested, thanks Darkness !)

please post feedback (questions, bug reports, suggestions) in the CHDK-Shell thread or this thread on the German Forum --- Note that posting on either forum requires registering.

Features

downloads gcc compiler / complete CHDK building environment, tools and current CHDK source (trunk or branches)
compiles CHDK for selected or all cameras with access to many compile time options
user configurable, flexible CHDK source updating with optional auto-compilation
includes CardTricks to install and manage CHDK on your SD-Cards
does not permanently change your enviroment, no conflicts with other compilers already installed on your machine
option to check/download/install program updates
clones & manages multiple build trees, creates Diff, and applies Patch files
switchable gcc 3.4 / 4.x support
Windows Vista / Windows 2008 / Windows 7 support (thanks to nmcconnell for the golden tip !)
switchable support for the german chdkde source tree ^New !
...and much more helpful tools & features for the CHDK development

Compilation

To compile your own CHDK just select camera (and firmware), select apropriate compile options and press Compile Selected button. After a while your binaries will appear in the directory: your_source/bin. You can easly click the Source Code Folder to open this place and then navigate to ./bin.

Download

	CHDK-Shell dowload site thanks to fe50, alternative downloads in "Development" here

	Note: For a first install, use the version marked '(full)' (~ 20 MB) Versions not marked 'full' are updates (no GCC compilers, ~ 1.9 MB) Packaged as 7-zip self extracters, unpack to a path without spaces

CHDK-Shell Version 3.40 (released: 2011-12-15) ^New !
CHDK-Shell Full Version 3.40 (released: 2011-12-15) ^New !

changed: Tooltip during deleting/recycling of old builds will now show at top left corner of main or miniGUI (whichever is active)

fixed: "ELF objdump" now collects all 3 main.dump files (from /core, /loader/{camera} and /loader/{camera}/resetcode) in /bin/logs dump-{camera}-{firm}.txt; also tweaked the compilation batch file to produce less 'noise' in the CMD window, and to add full specs for SH and (native) GCC to the dump and log files.

fixed: Finally managed to get the 'SKIP_AUTOBUILD' status to show up in the 'cam panel' tooltips without breaking other info in there, to give users at least a clue why it might not work or compile ..

removed: (from 'Source Tools..') Camera properties fixing option; did not work anymore after recent additions. I might put it back in later, if there's any demand and I find time to fix it.

added: Automatic patching of /core/Makefile - future GCC versions (4.6.x) feature stricter checking of command line options; the patch is fully backwards compatible (as in: all GCC versions support it) Thanks Nilinhim ! See this post. Has been fixed in recent trunk revisions, but still usefull to make older revisions compilable.

Security: Clean according to Jotti.

Checksums (FileAlyzer) are:

    CHDK-Shell-v340-full-sfx.exe
                   CRC-32:   7A891DB7
                   MD5:      C31725C1AFF4E4F2DFBB65339AFE8CB8
                   SHA1:     B60223029FC6AFBB7B65963C182AC9BE030BA149
    CHDK-Shell-v340-sfx.exe
                   CRC-32:   0479621C
                   MD5:      516215D739DC553609DCD5E61B09415E
                   SHA1:     4D44C51365B42444C88F6FE6CB725A94C559A005
    CHDK-Shell_Updater.7z
                   CRC-32:   508A9ABA
                   MD5:      AF65658DC9E472E72233BB7251FCC4E1
                   SHA1:     B0912EDA9A61DBE6BF3028787C4B3BEA6740CD3C

Archive (changelog)

→ Please refer to the 'readme.txt' file included with every version for the changelog