“In software, a toolchain is the set of computer programs (tools) that are used to create a product (typically another computer program or system of programs). The tools may be used in a chain, so that the output of each tool becomes the input for the next, but the term is used widely to refer to any set of linked development tools.” 1)
The PS2 Toolchain is a set of computer programs and scripts that are used to automatically build and install a compiler for the PlayStation 2 Emotion Engine as well as other tools used in the creation of home brew software for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game system. It is currently available for Linux (its primary environment) as well as modern versions of Windows. The Toolchain prepares a build environment for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (a.k.a. gcc).
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