Anyone having problems building Retroarch using the RetroPie installer on PC?

Johnston

Trying to reinstall retropie after a fresh install, Pop!_os 20.04. Nothing much different from the old install, I just decided to clean it up after installing loads of crap I don't need trying to get something else to work.

Retroarch fails at building

make: *** [Makefile:206: obj-unix/release/cores/libretro-ffmpeg/ffmpeg_core.o] Error 1

First I thought it was because I have a custom build of ffmpeg. But it wasn't it.
If I add the --disable-ffmpeg flag into the params, it builds okay.

Anyone else having issues or is there something on my system playing silly buggers? Any issue just building with the --disable-ffmpeg flag, will it affect gaming?

mitu

@johnston said in Anyone having problems building Retroarch using the RetroPie installer on PC?:

First I thought it was because I have a custom build of ffmpeg. But it wasn't it.
If I add the --disable-ffmpeg flag into the params, it builds okay.

That kind of proves that the ffmpeg installation is having an issue. Post the full build log on pastebin.com.

Any issue just building with the --disable-ffmpeg flag, will it affect gaming?

No, ffmpeg is used only for recording, so you won't be able to record a video or stream.

Johnston

@mitu
https://pastebin.com/CxjHvXQY

I had to chop of the beginning because for some reason Pastebins spam filter was flagging it

mitu

Looking at the log, it looks like you're either missing some of the ffmpeg libraries headers or the version you have is not compatible with RetroArch. Re-installing ffmpeg and its libraries may fix the compilation.

Johnston

@mitu
I thought that so I went back to the vanilla one (Just removed and reinstalled again just to make sure) exact same again.

Something must just not be playing nice :'(

mitu

Did you re-install also the additional ffmpeg packages like libswresample-dev, libacodec-dev, libavformat-dev, libswscale-dev ?

Johnston

@mitu
Just reinstalled them, same thing.

Ah well, it doesn't seem to be RP or upstream in retroarch, seems to be entirely at my end. .

The only thing I can think of is I installed some Ubuntu-studio stuff to get jack/Guitarix working, though I had it before too. I'm guessing whatever is different and is allowing them to work (sort of) this time is some how breaking something else.