aduskett/retroarch-buildroot

A retroarch system that is based off of Buildroot

retroarch-buildroot

A retroarch system that is based off of Buildroot

Supported Architectures:

• X86_64

Prerequisets:

• A linux docker image or system with the following packages: https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#requirement-mandatory

If you wish to use Docker, below is a project you can use which will contain everything needed to Build buildroot: https://github.com/aduskett/buildroot-docker-devel

How to build

1. Perform the following:

• Clone
• make retroarch_x86_defconfig
• make

2. Write the pendrive

The build process will create a pendrive image called disk.img in output/images.

Write the image to a pendrive:

$ dd if=output/images/disk.img of=/dev/sdc; sync

Once it's done insert it into the target PC and boot.

Remember that if said PC has another boot device you might need to select this alternative for it to boot.

In the case of EFI boot you might need to disable Secure Boot from the setup as well.

Customizing the build

After running make retroarch_x86_defconfig you can run make menuconfig

Some key options to change are:

• System Configuration -> Extra arguments. By default the data partition is set to 1GB, you may wish to increase the size.

• Target packages -> Games -> Retroarch You can enable Xvideo and Wayland support in this menu or deselect options you do not wish to build.

Adding Radeon Vega and Navi support:

type make menuconfig and go to Target packages -> Graphic libraries and applications -> mesa3d Select llvm support and Gallium Radeon SI driver using the space bar.

Exit and save.

Enabling this option takes a significant amount of extra time to compile and build! Approximatly 150M extra!

retroarch-buildroot's Issues

Building for several architectures

Hello, as per your reddit post I am writing my questions here in form of github issues.

That is actually only one so far :-)
How do I specify which SBC I am building it for? In the "baseline" buildroot I can "make raspberrypi4_defconfig" and have most things set up correctly. Is there any equivalent here?

Thank you very much,