Retropie on berrybooted raspbian

[jdog]

So after a lot of back and forth between single OS sd cards, multibooting with noobs and berryboot I’ve decided to go with berryboot because it has CEC enabled for the OS selection, meaning I can get by without hooking up a mouse/keyboard.

my setup is as follows
-16GB sd card
-berryboot loader with openelec and raspbian net-installed
-16GB flash drive containing roms
-wiimote/classic controller (i haven’t worried about setting this up yet)

i loaded the raspbian OS to the command line and ran the retropie setup from source.

made a couple of post retropie-setup mods
– edited /etc/fstab to automount my flash drive by label to /media/games
– LABEL=GAMES /media/games vfat defaults 0 0
– edited ~/.emulationstaton/es_systems.cfg and pointed all the path vars to /media/games/roms/XX
– find and replace “/home/pi/RetroPie/roms” with “/media/games/roms”

after all is said and done it appears retroarch hasn’t been properly installed. emulation station loads as expected and all the roms are listed. however for every system when i try to load a game i’m sent to a black screen briefly and then returned to the game listing.

so i exited emulation station with F4 and saw for each game i loaded an error had appeared in the console
“…/run_command.sh: line 13: /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch: No such file or directory”

i ran the retropie-setup a second time to attempt to reinstall just retroarch to no avail.

i’ve attached the debug.log file but i think the section at the top shows the issue is definitely that retroarch wasn’t properly installed.
====
RetroArch files:
/usr/local/bin/retroarch does NOT exist.
/usr/local/bin/retroarch-zip does NOT exist.
-rw-r–r– 1 pi pi 673 Dec 17 00:09 /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
====

has anyone come across this issue? any help would be appreciated. i’ve been working at this setup for about a week now and my brain is fried.

if i can get everything working I’ll post the set of instructions for my installation in the peoples projects thread.

[jdog]

making some progress here (maybe)

i’ve started working through ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators.shinc to manually go through the retroarch setup commands

starting with the em_install_retroarch() function (~ line 716)
– changed to the RetroArch dir
$ cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch
– pulled the repository to make sure it was up to date (it was)
$ git pull
– ran the configure command
$ ./configure --prefix="/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir"
==== configure output
./configure –prefix=”/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir”
Checking operating system … Linux
Checking for suitable working C compiler … /usr/bin/gcc
Checking for suitable working C++ compiler … /usr/bin/g++
Checking for availability of switch -std=gnu99 in /usr/bin/gcc … yes
Checking for availability of switch -Wno-unused-result in /usr/bin/gcc … yes
Checking for availability of switch -Wno-unused-variable in /usr/bin/gcc … yes
Checking function bcm_host_init in -lbcm_host … yes
Checking for pkg-config … /usr/bin/pkg-config
Checking presence of package egl … no
Checking existence of -lEGL -lGLESv2 -lbcm_host -lvcos -lvchiq_arm … yes
Checking function pthread_create in -lpthread … yes
Checking function dlopen in -ldl … yes
Checking function socket in -lc … yes
Checking function getaddrinfo in -lc … yes
Checking function fcntl in -lc … yes
Checking function getopt_long in -lc … yes
Checking presence of package alsa … yes
Checking presence of header file sys/soundcard.h … yes
Checking presence of header file soundcard.h … no
Checking existence of -lossaudio … no
Checking function alcOpenDevice in -lopenal … no
Checking presence of package rsound with minimum version 1.1 … no
Checking presence of package libroar … no
Checking presence of package jack with minimum version 0.120.1 … no
Checking presence of package libpulse … yes
Checking function AudioUnitInitialize in -framework AudioUnit … no
Checking presence of package sdl with minimum version 1.2.10 … yes
Checking function cgCreateContext in -lCg … no
Checking presence of package SDL_image … yes
Checking presence of package zlib … yes
Checking presence of package libavcodec with minimum version 54 … no
Checking presence of package libavformat with minimum version 54 … no
Checking presence of package libavutil with minimum version 51 … yes
Checking presence of package libswscale with minimum version 2.1 … no
Checking function dlopen in -ldl … yes
Checking presence of package gbm with minimum version 9.0 … no
Checking presence of package libdrm … no
Checking presence of package libxml-2.0 … yes
Checking presence of package glesv2 … no
Checking existence of -lGLESv2 -lGLESv2 -lbcm_host -lvcos -lvchiq_arm … yes
Checking presence of package vg … no
Checking existence of -lOpenVG -lGLESv2 -lbcm_host -lvcos -lvchiq_arm … yes
Checking presence of package libv4l2 … no
Checking presence of package freetype2 … yes
Checking presence of package x11 … yes
Checking presence of package xkbcommon with minimum version 0.3 … no
Checking presence of package xext … yes
Checking presence of package xxf86vm … no
Checking presence of package xinerama … yes
X11, Xext or xf86vm not present. Skipping X11 code paths.
Checking presence of package libudev … no
Checking function strlcpy in -lc … no
Checking function strcasestr in -lc … yes
Checking function mmap in -lc … yes
Checking presence of package python3 … no
Creating make config: config.mk
Creating config header: config.h
====
– make (died with an error)
$ make
– last five lines of make output (i’ve attached the full output of the make command)
====
/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so: undefined reference to’gl20_client_state_init’
/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so: undefined reference to ‘glxx_buffer_info_get’
/opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so: undefined reference to ‘glxx_client_IsFramebuffer’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [retroarch] Error 1
====
– i’m not sure what to do here. the error isn’t exactly verbose. it looks to me like libEGL is broken or not installed correctly?
– i continued on like it never happened (just in case by some miracle the error didn’t matter)

moving on to the em_configureRetroArch() function (~ line 644)
– the first line is a cp command but fails because the install dir hadn’t been created yet so i created the directory
$ mkdir -p /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin
– next copy the retroarch-zip file
$ cp /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/supplementary/retroarch-zip /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/
– the remaining part of em_configureRetroArch() seemed to have worked as expected during the original setup (i didn’t really test if the ensureKeyValue commands worked properly)

*** my attachments don’t seem to be uploading properly. (debug.log and the failed make output)
if you think they may be of some help I can post the full output here (i’d rather not clutter up the page if that’s not necessary)

[jdog]

i once again ran retropie-setup. this time i did a binary update instead of reinstalling from source. looks like that solved my issues.

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