where to place the executables?

[kara]

First a big thank you to all of you, I advance on my project thanks to you! A small question, When I compiled mupen64plus and mr-boom, I got 2 files mupen64plus_libretro.so and mrboom_libretro.so, where should I put them for Retropie to use them?

[mitu]

@kara You don't need to place them manually, if compiling them is ok, then just run the installation of the package from the RetroPie-Setup script and the script will copy them and configure the systems accordingly.

[kara]

restarting the installation restarts the download on the git and restarts the compilation which ends up failing because it is necessary the modified sources and not the souces downloaded on git!

[mitu]

@kara If you can't wait for the package sources to be fixed upstream, you can run the compilation manually. Each package source is downloaded during the build to $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/<package>.

• Get the sources for the package with

sudo $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh <package_name> sources

• Apply your patches to the source folder
• Build the modified package

sudo $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh <package_name> build

• Install the built package

sudo $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh <package_name> install

• Cleanup the package build folder

sudo $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh <package_name> clean

Replace <package_name> with the name of the package you're trying to build/install.

[kara]

Great ! thank you very much for an explanation, I will look at that !