How to compile the cores from GitHub?

RetroArch General
#1

I can’t find any information on compiling cores on Windows 10.

I got pointed towards Visual Studio Community and Cygwin, and I can’t get them to do anything.

Is there a tutorial or can someone give me a brief rundown?

This is driving me insane.

#2

Compiling stuff is a real PIA in Windows, IMO. This tutorial walks you through setting up a working msys2 environment, which is what we use for our buildbot: https://wiki.libretro.com/index.php?title=Building_Retroarch_on_Windows I’m not sure how up-to-date that tutorial is, though, just fair warning.

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#3

Thanks, I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. Google was being completely useless lol.

#4

isnt this suppose to be the new official documentation page? https://buildbot.libretro.com/docs/

anyways both procedure at least for windows still works https://buildbot.libretro.com/docs/compilation/windows/

#5

Yes it is, but I wasn’t able to find that Windows compilation guide there for whatever reason. /shrug

#6

While this subject pops back up can I just ask what’s the easiest platform to compile on?

I tried and failed with compiling Android from windows and with the lack of a ported guide in docs I was thinking of running a Linux VM to do it down the road.

What Linux version should I go for for easiest route to compile cores?

#7

no idea for android cross-compile, nor i have attempted to try. ubuntu should be a good linux environment and i do compiles there too.

#8

I wasn’t able to get that program to install on my system. Just hangs at 0%.

I just want to screw around with that alpha dolphin core lol

#9

If you are on Windows 10 x64 you can try Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_guide