skyline-rs-template

A template for writing skyline plugins for modding switch games using Rust and skyline-rs.

Prerequisites

• Rust - make sure rustup, cargo, and rustc (preferrably nightly) are installed.
• git

Setup

1. Install linkle and my fork of Xargo:

  # Install linkle
  cargo install --features=binaries --git https://github.com/MegatonHammer/linkle

  # Install Xargo
  cargo install --force --git https://github.com/jam1garner/xargo.git

2. Make a folder for you to store all of your plugins

mkdir plugins
cd plugins

3. Within your plugins folder, clone rust-std-skyline-squashed

# Make sure you are inside of your plugins folder
git clone https://github.com/jam1garner/rust-std-skyline-squashed

Note: you only have to clone the std once to be shared between every plugin in the folder.

Creating and building a plugin

1. From within the same folder as where you cloned rust-std-skyline-squashed clone this repo and rename it to match the name of your plugin. To clone and rename all at once, use:

git clone https://github.com/jam1garner/skyline-rs-template [name of plugin]

2. Make sure you're inside the folder for your plugin:

cd [name of plugin]

3. There's a few places you'll need to rename your plugin. First in Cargo.toml near the top, change

name = "skyline-rs-template"

To a name suitable for your plugin. Next, go into src/lib.rs and edit the following line:

#[skyline::main(name = "module_name_test")]

to reflect what you want your module to be named on your console.

4. Lastly, to compile your plugin use the following command in the root of the project (beside the Cargo.toml file):

cargo nro

Your resulting plugin will be the .nro found in the folder ``` [plugin name]/target/aarch64-skyline-switch

To install (you must already have skyline installed on your switch), put the plugin on your SD at:

sd:/atmosphere/contents/[title id]/romfs/skyline/plugins

So, for example, smash plugins go in the following folder: ```
sd:/atmosphere/contents/01006A800016E000/romfs/skyline/plugins

Troubleshooting

"Cannot be used on stable"

First, make sure you have a nightly installed: ``` rustup install nightly

Second, make sure it is your default channel: ```
rustup default nightly

---

thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value', src/bin/cargo-nro.rs:280:13
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

Make sure you are inside the root of the plugin you created before running cargo nro

Have a problem/solution that is missing here? Create an issue or a PR!

Updating

For updating your dependencies such as skyline-rs:

cargo update

For updating your version of rust-std-skyline-squashed:

# From inside your plugins folder

rm -rf && git clone https://github.com/jam1garner/rust-std-skyline-squashed