Pinebook gaming thread

[vnomis]

Looks like a compiler issue, I'll look into it.

Also, i wrote the syntax incorrectly (-disable --neon) should be --disable-neon
[edit] did you have correct syntax for --disable-neon ? - if not, perhaps its trying to cross-compile ?

Yes, and added --disable-dynamic to correct the error Error: Dynamic loading of libretro is enabled, but your platform does not appear to have dlopen(), use --disable-dynamic or --with-libretro="-lretro".

Ok, do some googling and see what you come up with. I'll get back on this monday. Perhaps I'll even get a chance to fetch the original image on some stable internet and flash it to a SD card. Are you doing this on KDE Neon or another image ?

I am doing it on KDE Neon.

I realised you can install RetroArch directly using the built in Software Center in the Games category, and I was able update to update it to the latest nightly build, but I have not found a way to install cores yet.

Yea, sure, you can install using apt get and install all the cores too - but its just going to be software rendered, so there is no point.
You need to compile it with the correct flags to get acceleration. If you want to confirm this, you can install the lastest stable build with all cores by adding the ppa:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libretro/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install retroarch libretro-*

I get the following error for the first 2:

Ign:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/extra/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic InRelease                          
Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-updates InRelease                  
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/stable/ubuntu bionic InRelease               
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/testing/ubuntu bionic InRelease              
Hit:6 http://pinebook.kde.org.uk bionic InRelease                                    
Err:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/extra/ubuntu bionic Release                  
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Get:8 http://archive.neon.kde.org/user bionic InRelease [19.0 kB]                    
Reading package lists... Done                                 
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/extra/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

And when I try the last one...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libretro-common
E: Unable to locate package libretro-db


Without those packages, I cannot continue.

Any ideas at all?

Thanks in advance.