Compilation failing for lr-mame2003. Seems likely due to OS-misdetection

[phx]

CPU: AMD 3400G
Host OS: Linux Mint 20.2
Build From: Downloaded from GitHub (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git)

Not sure if this would be a topic for the devs of the individual emulators, but as it seems to occur across emulators it may be a RetroPie-specific issue

When building the base install, several emulators fail including LR-MAME2003 and LR-Mupen64plus. The base cause seems to be OS misdetection, and Mupen64plus fails while looking for a "windows.h" while MAME2003 fails indicating a missing mame2003_libretro.so as it builds mame2003_libretro.dll instead

This host has just had the OS freshly installed and previous Retropie installs worked fine, so something seems to have changed in the last 6mo

[mitu]

@phx said in Compilation failing for lr-mame2003. Seems likely due to OS-misdetection:

Not sure if this would be a topic for the devs of the individual emulators, but as it seems to occur across emulators it may be a RetroPie-specific issue

Some libretro based projects use a quite similar makefile, which uses uname to determine the system type and trips when the hostname contains [W|w]in, thinking it's a Windows system. What's your hostname ?

[phx]

@mitu you, my friend, are a genius (and this is really a stupid bug)
Yes, the hostname was Inwin as that particular system lives in an Inwin mini-ITX case. Changing the hostname of the system fixed it!