Change retroarch.cfg skeleton?

cantenna1 · 15 May 2019 07:51

Greetings

I’m trying to make a custom image .apk (I’ve got an android device that I unfortunately cannot root so i’m trying to ease the pain by of setup by building a non-setup image.)

I’ve tried a few things that didn’t work, then I dived into the file libretro.so (iirc) with a hex editor and saw that it looks to /home/.config then /etc for skeleton to generate retroarch.cfg. On android (and without root) these paths either don’t exist or cant be created. And I cant find where these default values can be set.

Anyone know where I can include a default config for new apk installs? Preferably located within the .apk.

hunterk · 15 May 2019 13:27

I believe what you’re wanting is this file:

github.com

libretro/RetroArch/blob/master/config.def.h

/*  RetroArch - A frontend for libretro.
 *  Copyright (C) 2010-2014 - Hans-Kristian Arntzen
 *  Copyright (C) 2011-2016 - Daniel De Matteis
 *  Copyright (C) 2016-2019 - Brad Parker
 *
 *  RetroArch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
 *  of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Found-
 *  ation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  RetroArch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
 *  without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
 *  PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with RetroArch.
 *  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

#ifndef __CONFIG_DEF_H
#define __CONFIG_DEF_H

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You shouldn’t need to root anything for setup, though. You can install cores without using the online updater now, you can point any other directories to user-writable locations and repopulate…

cantenna1 · 15 May 2019 14:25

Thank you

Okay, so, i’m using apktool currently and don’t see this file, guess ill have to compile from source to access?

hunterk · 15 May 2019 15:07

Yes, it’s a source file.

cantenna1 · 20 May 2019 05:23

Hi mate,

Edit: was able to get the job done by editing the file above as well as other various configs. In hindsight, I now think I misinterpreted the purpose of skeleton.cfg.

Anyways, all good and thanks again for the help :)