How do you compile retroarch for personal preference

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#1

hi like to learn how to compile retroarch and know all the tools to compile it can it be complied on windows?

#2

Try following this guide (look at my message on the bottom of the page).

People helped me here if you do the same mistakes (from message #34).

#3

what about program to use to compile?

#4

it’s all explained in the guide he posted

#5

oh ok so if i get 64bit can i compile both 32bit and 64bit?

#6

im confused do i use the Prepackaged MinGW-w64 + Git RetroArch development environment ?

#7

No, just follow the guide it’s very well explained, install msys2, install the toolchains with Pacman and build.

#9

i see toolchains and pacman now at the builds part i get this http://i.imgur.com/TO0BN4P.png

#10

Mmm… you’re launching an incomplete command in MingW32 that should be launched in MSYS2_shell.

Read the guide again, and I guess you go the 32 bits way from start to finish if you want to build for win32. (I suppose)

The command for 32 bits is:

pacman -S --noconfirm --needed git make mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-i686-pkgconf mingw-w64-i686-nvidia-cg-toolkit mingw-w64-i686-SDL2 mingw-w64-i686-libxml2 mingw-w64-i686-freetype mingw-w64-i686-python3 mingw-w64-i686-ffmpeg

Then if you have an error message that says:

error: target not found: mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf

You’ll launch the previous command again with the mingw-w64-i686-pkgconf part removed.

For now, you get the missing component manually from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW_GCC_4_9/i686/ That should be mingw-w64-i686-pkgconf-0.9.7-2-any.pkg.tar.xz.

You install it with:

pacman -U mingw-w64-i686-pkgconf-0.9.7-2-any.pkg.tar.xz

And so on… (this is for components that aren’t updated yet for GCC 5)

#11

what about 64bit compiling tatsuya?

#12

You follow the guide for the 64bits part, and if some packages are missing you take them manually from sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW_GCC_4_9/x86_64/ (what I’ve written in the comment section on the bottom of the guide)

I’m not sure about compiling a 32bits exe with the 64bits MinGW… I did everything for 64bits only here.

#13

you don’t need to get anything manually I reinstalled the toolchain a week ago

#14

Nice, they have updated those packages then.

edit: I tried to update and it still doesn’t work for mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf and mingw-w64-x86_64-nvidia-cg-toolkit. I don’t see them in GCC5 repo.

It seems you still need to get them from the older 4.9 repo. …or there is a way I ignore.