Script to Compile the latest github for retroarch+cores for iOS

RetroArch Apple devices
#222

@xdccrlz Yeah, I miss @jet082 too! I think he would have figured out how to solve the JIT situation on iOS 64 bit by now if his laptop didn’t die last December…

To sign cores, I just create a RetroArch IPA with the cores I want to sign included (they can be in random folders inside the app, I create many folders like iOS9, iOS10 and so on and they get signed just fine…), and then use iOS App Signer…

Then for the binary, I add entitlements by using ldid -S/path/to/the/entitlements.xml /path/to/RetroArch.app/RetroArch

Here are the entitlements file contents

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>platform-application</key>
	<true/>
	<key>com.apple.private.security.container-required</key>
	<false/>
	<key>com.apple.private.security.no-container</key>
	<true/>
	<key>com.apple.private.skip-library-validation</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Then I chown -R root:wheel the whole app, and chmod +s the binary to complete the sandbox escape!

#223

Grand merci, monsieur! I’ll do it now!

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#224

I mean I’m still here and still around… My laptop is still in the RMA process, as it has been since December. Razer is… A bit slow.

For what it is worth, I finally got through their red tape and actually sent my laptop in for repairs a week ago.

Yes, I had been trying to get them to honor my RMA request for the two+ months previous to that.

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#225

@jet082 Glad to see you! @Weedy_Weed_Smoker No working( Are you build ipa from Xcode or command line? If I change only one file RetroArch in my app for the same from your app - all working. If I insert my dylib into your app/modules - it”s working. But my build working only in Xcode debug session(

#226

@xdccrlz I build RetroArch with Xcode (on a macOS 10.15 virtual machine, from my macOS 10.13 Hackintosh)…

I build the cores from macOS 10.14 (in a virtual machine) as that’s the only version that compiles things like the MAME core properly with minimal setup!

My macOS 10.15 laptop is still dead (hi @jet082!…) but that was my primary build machine before that, so I had to move everything over to the Hackintosh…

BTW, very glad to see you here Jet! :slightly_smiling_face:

#227

(Sorry for the double-post, I was unsure where to put this one:)

Hello, and many thanks for the work on iOS (Retroarch rules on my iPad) - however in my environment (iPad 3 jailed), the mednafen-psx core of both the Retroarch 1.8.5.ipa bundle and that one from the official Libretro buildbot does not work (“Cannot load Core”) !

I replaced it with the one from @Weedy_Weed_Smoker (his buildbot), which is Beetle PSX (0.9.44.1 a6c250c), et voila, it works again . So I assume that something recently broke Beetle PSX on my iPad.

Best, Stefan

#228

What’s type of Jailbreak are you use? Checkrain have not this issue. Use it and all be good.

#229

No it is iOS without jailbreak. Self-signed cores, all others work.

Edit 16 April 20: Compiled 0.9.44.1 dfab19a from current Github, works again :slight_smile:

#230

May I ask for help how to compile mupen64plus-next in iOS with GLES3? The current recipe in Libretro-super compiles a gles2 core for me. Help would be much appreciated, the GLES3 Core looks much much better than my own compile! Many thanks!

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#231

hey does this script have this updated dosbox core https://github.com/libretro/dosbox-svn ?

#232

Hi There,

My apologies in advance for the very basic query… unfortunately I only a novice Xcode user through have done a spot of programming.

Thanks for this update - sure will help make iOS running smoother.

I’ve followed all but the final product! what do I do with the script?

Is it in >pkg>apple>iOS>script>build.cfg ?

Also on the files to redirect, I simply placed a placeholder folder ‘someDirectory’ within this folder (ditto>script:) are there other folders to update in the script:

def updateSomeDir(someDirectory): someGitDir = git.Repo(someDirectory) if eraseLocalChanges: try:

So finally – once all this is sorted, currently I run Xcode for iOS 11 and installs to my phone but without cores…

Thanks again, A.