Hello and welcome to Reswitched Weekly, a weekly summary of the progress made by the reswitched team and wider community around homebrew development for the Nintendo Switch.

This week, some more attention was given to C++ support and pthread.

What people are working on

• @dvdfreitag managed to compile libcxx, libcxxabi and libunwind for the Nintendo Switch. C++ support is almost palpable.
• @TurtleP started porting LovePotion to the Nintendo Switch. LovePotion allows writing games using a simple lua API.
• @roblabla spent his week fighting bugs in his pthread port.
• @misson20000 is still working on getting framebuffer support into libtransistor.
• @Pokemod97 is writing a tutorial on setting up a proper development environment for libtransistor. Stay tuned !

Call for participation

Lots of things could be implemented properly into libtransistor/newlib without much more reverse-engineering. If you’re a developer and want to give a hand, make sure to hop on Discord so we can coordinate work.

Things that need work on :

• Thread Local Storage, by implementing emutls.
• Implementing more services into libtransistor.
• Port some apps, like micropython, and make sure they work !
• Documentation ! We have lots of moving parts that aren’t properly documented. Setting up doxygen for libtransistor would be a huge first step towards fixing this. Writing some documentation for toolchain setup and ace_loader usage would be awesome too.