libcurl issue -> Raspbian Buster + Retropie 4.6 + TNTBF (Gamemakerstudio port)

tMh

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry 3B
Power Supply used: Samsung 2.0 A
RetroPie Version Used: 4.6
Built From: fresh 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-full.zip & RetroPie Setup
USB Devices connected: Mouse and Keyboard
Controller used: Two custom drivers (8bitdo I2C and another GPIO controller)
Error messages received: "They need to be fed" tries to start and exits without any notice.
Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (if relevant): /opt/retropie/ports/gamemaker/TheyNeedToBeFed/TheyNeedToBeFed: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by /opt/retropie/ports/gamemaker/TheyNeedToBeFed/TheyNeedToBeFed)
Guide used: (Mention if you followed a guide)
File: (File with issue - with FULL path)
Emulator: (Name of emulator - if applicable) Ports-TheyNeedToBeFed
Attachment of config files:
How to replicate the problem: happens always

Hey,
I appreciate the whole project a lot.
It seems that the Gamemakerstudio games require libcurl3.
Unfortunately Raspbian Buster seems only to support libcurl4.
I already tried fetching an old libcurl.so.X from an old image but that failed with another error (/opt/retropie/ports/gamemaker/TheyNeedToBeFed/TheyNeedToBeFed: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory).
I spent some hours with google now but I cannot cope with that issue, I have to admit I am a Linux Newbie....

BR
Florian

tMh

Hey all,

Update on that. After some more research, I managed to get a correct libcurl.so.X from Raspbian Stretch repos. With that one it was possible to set
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/libcurl3/
before starting the game and it works.

Now I seem to run into the same dead end like some others some time ago: trying to get a gamepad device or something else working in the GameMaker games.

I have set up xboxdrv perfectly doing mouse and keyboard actions outside the game but I cannot get it running in the game. Even with unplugged mouse and keyboard.
Interesting is, that the game uses the second button (from xboxdrv-joypad device, not from remapped keyboard actions) as exit button.
Anybody any news since 2017?

BR
Florian

tMh

Hey,

it's me again.
I guess I am a bit closer. I was wondering why my custom gamepad driver which generates a uinput device is not working. By incident I started the game directly without the start script, so I could see the information output. One of the very first lines was "couldn't find keyboard event file". I recognized that my custom driver creates a eventX in /dev/input but not in the subdirectories by-id or by-path.
So I tried to create a symbolic link in by-id, pointing at my event.

Now the keyboard-emulating gamepad worked in the game!

Playing that a bit further I went back to my gamepad driver which behaves like a gamepad without keyboard emulation. Running on top xboxdrv with mouse and keyboard emulation. again with a symlink in by-id.

Now the regular gamepad-driver with xboxdrv on top worked in the game!

Only point is, that no regular keyboard is allow to be connected (maybe be game only uses the first keyboard?).

BR
Florian