dev-0x7c6/retro-build-environment

OpenEmbedded / Yocto build enviroment for Retro reference distribution.

Reference build environment for Retro distribution

This is a commplete build enviroment that is integrating Yocto and meta-retro layer. A starting point to build RetroArch system images for PC machines and for embedded machines like RaspberryPi.

Retro distribution is defined by meta-retro layer in retro.conf. Is partially based on poky configuration file provided by Yocto.

Customization

File local.conf contains default configuration that can be changed. RetroArch and libretro cores releated settings are explained in meta-retro readme

Building system images

#~ git clone --recursive https://github.com/dev-0x7C6/retro-build-environment.git
#~ cd retro-build-environment
#~ source source.me
#~ MACHINE="raspberrypi4" bitbake retro-image-minimal

Support and tests

Machine	Layer	Build against	Runtime testing	Notice
cubietruck	meta-sunxi	Often	Rarely	Unable to run kms with lima(mesa)
intel-core2-32	meta-intel	Often	Sometimes	As pendrive dongle
intel-corei7-64	meta-intel	Often	Sometimes	As pendrive dongle
orange-pi-pc	meta-sunxi	Often	Rarely	---
raspberrypi3-64	meta-raspberrypi	Often	Sometimes	---
raspberrypi3	meta-raspberrypi	Often	Sometimes	---
raspberrypi4-64	meta-raspberrypi	Always	Often	---
raspberrypi4	meta-raspberrypi	Always	Often	---
rock-pi-4a	meta-rockchip	Often	None	Thanks to @MarkusVolk for sending patches

Login

Default user is retro, passsword is same as user name. Pulseaudio is configured to work with retro user and is disabled in root account.

Patches

Please submit any patches against the retro-build-environment by pull requests.

retro-build-environment's Issues

Weekly builds

What do you think about weekly builds?

I would like to "slave" my Jenkins Build slave for you if you want. (Sounds more sexual then expected)
I know how hard getting started in yocto is - with ready built images people could enjoy this os.

The images could be then uploaded to git lfs or a simple plain webserver. What do you think about this? I guess it will be a lot of work getting this done - so i really would like to hear your opinion before i start doing this.

With kind regards Mia