Install Error

rbaker

I cannot install lr-mess on my Raspberry Pi 3. It compiles and everything, but it shows an error message.

I cannot understand why you think people have psychic powers. I cannot understand why you keep ignoring people. I cannot understand, I cannot understand, please help?!?

NintendoFan64

@rbaker Why can I not downvote myself?

BuZz

@NintendoFan64 are you ok ? :)

markyh444

@NintendoFan64 You're my new favourite

NintendoFan64

@BuZz I'm serious tho. How do I?

BuZz

@NintendoFan64 Fortunately it's not possible ;-)

NintendoFan64

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BuZz

I have upvoted your request to downvote yourself anyway.

NintendoFan64

@BuZz 👍

BuddhaOhneHals

Hi.

I'm new to the forum. I would have opened an issue on GitHub but they suggest to post here first. Here's the log after trying to install lr-mess:

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Building 'lr-mess' : MESS emulator - MESS Port for libretro
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Removing additional swap
GCC 4.9.2 detected
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
Cleaning genie
Cleaning...
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-mess/src/devices/cpu/m68000'
Cleaning...
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-mess/src/devices/cpu/m68000'
GCC 4.9.2 detected
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
Creating obj/Release
Creating obj/Release/src/host
Creating obj/Release/src/host/lua-5.3.0/src
Converting translation language/Danish/strings.po...
lapi.c
lauxlib.c
Converting translation language/Serbian/strings.po...

[...]

Converting src/mame/drivers/ymmu100.ppm...
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-mess/src/devices/cpu/m68000'
Linking m68kmake...
Generating M68K source files...

        Musashi v4.90 680x0, CPU32, and ColdFire emulator
        Copyright Karl Stenerud and the MAME team.

Generated 1972 opcode handlers from 523 primitives
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-mess/src/devices/cpu/m68000'
GCC version 5.0 or later needed
makefile:1243: recipe for target 'build/projects/retro/mamemess/gmake-linux/Makefile' failed
make: *** [build/projects/retro/mamemess/gmake-linux/Makefile] Error 255
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Removing additional swap
/home/pi
Could not successfully build MESS emulator - MESS Port for libretro (/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so not found).

It seems like the upstream project changed and the lr-mess.sh script needs to be updated. Can I open an issue on github for this?

Thanks

BuZz

@BuddhaOhneHals Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

lr-mess won't work on Raspbian due to old gcc so we don't have a working mess currently for Raspbian.