Apple2e: AppleWin Libretro

Folly

@ExarKunIv said in Apple2e: AppleWin Libretro:

what you guys think?

I agree.
People can always use game-focus just like with other cores.
A good thing, with this core, is that it will remind you of the game-focus option at the startup.

I would like to have the toggle lines in there too so people don't have to search for the config toggle lines because you can't find them in the normal all/retroarch.cfg.

@Lolonois @ExarKunIv
What do you both think ?

The package libslirp stays in the folder /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/libslirp after install.
Shouldn't it be moved to the opt directory when installing ?

ExarKunIv

@Folly said in Apple2e: AppleWin Libretro:

I would like to have the toggle lines in there too so people don't have to search for the config toggle lines because you can't find them in the normal all/retroarch.cfg.

good idea.

Lolonois

Valid aspects, you two.

Some changes I did:

Game focus is off by default.
Added to the Readme/Help to closely review the game focus toggle button
Removed libslirp build artefacts. At the moment they are installed at /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf. Maybe I change it over time, but for now (experimental scriptmodul still) I will leave it like that.

ExarKunIv

@Lolonois looks good to me. Thanks again for all your work on this

Folly

@Lolonois

There are a lot of .gz zipped dsk and po files in the apple-ii-disk-collection rom pack.
I think we should add the .gz extension too.

Lolonois

@Folly The information in the rp_help in this scriptmodule is only informational. Normative authority is es_systems.cfg: Enabling .gz can be done in the ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg by the user. This core supports .gz but I can not tell for other emulators like Linapple.

Folly

@Lolonois

That's ok, I get it.

Retrodade

@ExarKunIv how do i get the "working version"? i installed from extras and it's booting back so i found this thread and figured I have something a miss?

thanks

ExarKunIv

@Retrodade as far as i now its still working,
when you start the game you need to press a and then launch it with Verbose log

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#launch-with-verbose-logging

that way it will make a log file that you can post here and we can see what is going on

also what are you running it on

Retrodade

@ExarKunIv pi4

Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-applewin/applewin_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/apple2/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2/Pac-Man (Atari) (USA).dsk" --verbose --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
[INFO] RetroArch 1.8.5 (Git 8bcd74b)
[INFO] Redirecting save file to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2/Pac-Man (Atari) (USA).srm".
[INFO] Redirecting savestate to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/apple2/Pac-Man (Atari) (USA).state".
[INFO] === Build =======================================
[INFO] Capabilities: NEON VFPv3 VFPv4
[INFO] Built: Apr 20 2020
[INFO] Version: 1.8.5
[INFO] Git: 8bcd74b
[INFO] =================================================
[INFO] Loading dynamic libretro core from: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-applewin/applewin_libretro.so"
[ERROR] Failed to open libretro core: "/opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-applewin/applewin_libretro.so"
Error(s): libslirp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[INFO] Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds.
[INFO] Unloading game..
[INFO] Unloading core..
[INFO] Unloading core symbols..

Folly

@Retrodade said in Apple2e: AppleWin Libretro:

Error(s): libslirp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You are missing a dependency.
Try to install it manually from the cli and see if it works :

sudo apt install libslirp-dev

Or add it to the modulescript in lr-applewin.sh in the function depends and reinstall the core again.

ExarKunIv

@Folly its odd that its missing
the script builds it from source

gitPullOrClone $md_build/../libslirp https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp.git

UPDATE

yes something it broken, not sure where, yet
the script does build libslirp from source and does install it
i can do a file search and its there, libslirp.so.0

i dont know why its not being found maybe @Lolonois can shed some light on this one
im trying a older commit to see if the dev changed something

Retrodade

@ExarKunIv ok great i did try the 2 methods above and it wouldn't add it

first I tried this way.

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo apt install libslirp-dev
Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package libslirp-dev

then I tried adding it in the sh

Installing dependencies for 'Ir-applewin' : AppleZe emulator: AppleWin (current) port fox
Did not find needed dependencies: libslirp-deu. Trying to install them now.
Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease [32.6 kB]
Get:3 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf Packages [13.0 MB]
Get:4 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster/main armhf Packages [400 kB]
Fetched 13.5 MB in 8s (1,677 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package libsl irp-deu
Could not install package(s): libsl irp-deu.

Lolonois

@Retrodade said in Apple2e: AppleWin Libretro:

[INFO] RetroArch 1.8.5 (Git 8bcd74b)

As I mentioned already in another thread: With this outdated version you are on your own (v1.8.5 was added at 2020-04-17 to RetroPie).

Currently RetroPie is on retroarch v1.16.0, I tested lr-applewin with retroarch v1.12 onwards.

Lolonois

@Folly on RetroPie on RaspiOS Buster this lib is not available as package. There is a reason I added the source build ;-) Please avoid hinting less experienced users in the wrong direction.

Lolonois

@ExarKunIv I'd like to challenge that the scriptmodule is wrong/outdated.

I had no luck to reproduce the missing libslirp dependency.

I have tested with RP 4.8.6 (commit 656a478e):

Explicitly deleted the libslirp installation from /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ and /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/pkgconfig
I have taken the scriptmodule as in the latest revision in the gist
I tried with the dialog basesd retropie-setup.sh and as well with retropie-packages.sh lr-applewin

No issues.

Can you provide a build log of lr-applewin from ~/RetroPie-Setup/logs/rps...gz via pastebin or similar?

Do you have the *.so files and symlinks in /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ after the scriptmodule did run?

Does ldd find libslirp? Issue: ldd /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-applewin/applewin_libretro.so | grep slirp, it should give you one match.

If there is no match. What is the content of the file/is this file below present?

$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/arm-linux-gnueabihf.conf 
# Multiarch support
/usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf   # <--- this must be there
/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf

If it (=the marked line above) is there, do update the library dependency cache with sudo ldconfig -v | grep slirp. You should see a line like

[...]
	libslirp.so.0 -> libslirp.so.0.4.0
[...]

Then check again: Does ldd find libslirp? (see above)

Folly

@Lolonois said in Apple2e: AppleWin Libretro:

Please avoid hinting less experienced users in the wrong direction.

With the information I had it was the most obvious hint.

ExarKunIv

@Lolonois said in Apple2e: AppleWin Libretro:

Do you have the *.so files and symlinks in /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ after the scriptmodule did run?

I know it installed that just fine for me on my test setup. I'll have to check the symlinks

But it end up giving the same error as reteodade

I already have it working on my main system. But that was done awhile ago. But I'm going to compare that with my test setup on Monday

I find it odd that a few other people are having issues. But you aren't. And I have 1 system that's fine and 1 that's not working

Retrodade

@ExarKunIv does this mean I have possible hope getting it running on our pi4?
thanks for looking at our error log btw

ExarKunIv

@Lolonois got to love linux.
so i did a clean load to start all my comparing and what not.
and now it works just fine.
even though on friday even with a fresh and updated RP it would not start a game

as you said. you need to update the RP script and update everything.

i did a fresh load and with out updating it didn't work ( as you said it wouldn't) then i updated everything to the same commit that you did and it worked just fine after that. No error

so i did a new card and fresh image
this time i just updated retroarch, that didn't work. (was not expecting it too)
did a full update and like before it now works

So i agree, it is working as it is designed, why it didnt work before for me. i will never know

@Retrodade sorry, as

@Lolonois said in Apple2e: AppleWin Libretro:

[INFO] RetroArch 1.8.5 (Git 8bcd74b)
As I mentioned already in another thread: With this outdated version you are on your own (v1.8.5 was added at 2020-04-17 to RetroPie).

Currently RetroPie is on retroarch v1.16.0, I tested lr-applewin with retroarch v1.12 onwards.

theres not much I and @Lolonois can do.

the only thing i can say if you want to get applewin to work. you will have to update your system.
as i said above, updating retroarch to the latest which it 1.16.0 will not make it work. you need to the main Retropuie system files also