Emulation station wont build on bookworm arm64

Nossie

I realise this is unsupported, but I'm hoping someone can help

as part of retropie, I edited emulationstation and commented out the omx player lines, SDL2 issues etc are resolved.

However when I build emulationstation from source it comes back with this image - now /emulationstation/emulation station does not exist but /emulationstation does - has anyone experience this before? Reading about some have said it's running out of memory - but I'm using a 4GB pi, set gpu to 64 and not running the DE.

I don't get where it's pulling that extra folder from - thanks


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/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/Settings.h:20:57: note:   initializing argument 1 of 
  20 |         const std::string& getString(const std::string& name);
     |                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/PowerSaver.cpp: In static member function :
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/PowerSaver.cpp:75:62: error: cannot convert  to  {aka }
  75 |         bool ps_enabled = Settings::getInstance()->getString("PowerSaverMode") != "disabled";
     |                                                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     |                                                              |
     |                                                              const char [15]
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/Settings.h:20:57: note:   initializing argument 1 of 
  20 |         const std::string& getString(const std::string& name);
     |                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
make[2]: *** [es-core/CMakeFiles/es-core.dir/build.make:216: es-core/CMakeFiles/es-core.dir/src/PowerSaver.cpp.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp: In member function :
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:281:28: error:  was not declared in this scope; did you mean ?
 281 |         std::string path = getConfigPath();
     |                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
     |                            getHomePath
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp: In member function :
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:333:28: error:  was not declared in this scope; did you mean ?
 333 |         std::string path = getConfigPath();
     |                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
     |                            getHomePath
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:356:48: error:  was not declared in this scope
 356 |                                         path = getTemporaryConfigPath();
     |                                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp: In member function :
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:395:28: error:  was not declared in this scope; did you mean ?
 395 |         std::string path = getConfigPath();
     |                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
     |                            getHomePath
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp: At global scope:
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:434:13: error: no declaration matches 
 434 | std::string InputManager::getConfigPath()
     |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:434:13: note: no functions named 
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.h:13:7: note:  defined here
  13 | class InputManager
     |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:441:13: error: no declaration matches 
 441 | std::string InputManager::getTemporaryConfigPath()
     |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:441:13: note: no functions named 
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.h:13:7: note:  defined here
  13 | class InputManager
     |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:471:13: error: no declaration matches 
 471 | std::string InputManager::getDeviceGUIDString(int deviceId)
     |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.cpp:471:13: note: no functions named 
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/InputManager.h:13:7: note:  defined here
  13 | class InputManager
     |       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [es-core/CMakeFiles/es-core.dir/build.make:174: es-core/CMakeFiles/es-core.dir/src/InputManager.cpp.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation'
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:220: es-core/CMakeFiles/es-core.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation'
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
Removing additional swap
Could not successfully build emulationstation - EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators (/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/emulationstation not found).
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup

Log ended at: Wed Feb  8 04:43:04 PM GMT 2023
Total running time: 0 hours, 5 mins, 13 secs

mitu

Post the entire install log file on pastebin.com. My guess is you're using the wrong branch due to bookworm not having a proper release version.

Nossie

@mitu thanks, this is my full log

emulationstation-dev did compile, but I'd rather not use that as from what I understand it requires more configuration - thanks!

https://pastebin.com/pHNS74sS

mitu

@Nossie As I suspected, you're using a - quite outdated - branch because your distro is not recognized.

..

/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/emulationstation.sh: line 138: [[: n/a: division by 0 (error token is "a")
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup
 
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Getting sources for 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
 
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/emulationstation.sh: line 148: [[: n/a: division by 0 (error token is "a")
HEAD is now at 920db2b bump version to v2.7.6
...

You'll want to manually compile from the dev/stable branch, the 2.7.6 is for stretch/jessie.

EDIT: or you can patch system.sh and have it map bookworm to a proper os_debian_ver.

Nossie

@mitu thanks, I had a look around and as I'm building on top of an existing OS was told I should be using this one.

Can you point me in the direction of the dev/stable branch? I figure I can just let it start and leave it to compile. - thanks!