Mame2003-Plus installation problem [RetroPie 4.4 Official]

markwkidd

There are two issues.

You're seeing #1 in the log you posted. twinaphex and bparker from libretro are doing some intensive work on the build system for mame2003-plus and things are stalled right now while they figure something out.

#2 is that this PR (or something equivalent) needs to be added to RetroPie setup https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2369

Summary: It may be a day or two before mame2003-plus compiles again, but it will probably be somewhat better than ever when it does.

roslof

Very helpful, markwkidd. Thank you for the fast response!
Will monitor/ follow-up on their github page.

Have a great night
-Roslof

markwkidd

Update: It looks like the libretro crew finished their work, so it's down to just issue #2 about the setup script.

markwkidd

One more update. Your build issue now affects standard mame2003 as well, so there is a new RetroPie-Setup PR to solve build issues for both versions of the core: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2370

markwkidd

The RetroPie-Setup PR was just merged, so @roslof you ought to be able to update RetroPie-Setup and then be able to build mame2003-plus. Please let me know if there are problems.

roslof

Thanks again markwkidd,

Good news is that the build gets much further (near the end) but eventually errors:

Could not successfully install Arcade emu - updated MAME 0.78 port for libretro with added game support (/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/lr-mame2003-plus/changed.txt not found).

Feels like it's almost there. "lr-mame2003-plus" now appears in the emulator drop down list, but attempting to use it fails as expected.

Clearly, the team is working on this, so I'm not concerned. For fun, I might inject a dummy changed.txt at the location and see if this gets further along.

Best,
ros

markwkidd

I can't be sure but it sounds like you need to update your RetroPie setup script

mitu

@roslof Did you update the RetroPie setup script before re-compiling ? The file you mention has been removed from the package so you shouldn't get that error anymore if you updated.

roslof

Thanks guys. You're both right -- I hadn't updated the script. Will try again.

roslof

Of course, that worked like a charm.
Thank you for the support!